We Are An Age Without Leaders. We

I Cry, Sometimes, Because I'm Not 20 Years Younger, And I'm Not Healthy. But If I Were, I Would Even Sacrifice My Writing To Enter Politics.

We Are An Age Without Leaders. We Stopped Having Leaders At The End Of The 20th Century

Khomeini Was Not A Puppet Like Arafat Or Qaddafi Or The Many Other Dictators I Met In The Islamic World. He Was A Sort Of Pope, A Sort Of King - A Real Leader.

Glory Is A Heavy Burden, A Murdering Poison, And To Bear It Is An Art. And To Have That Art Is Rare.

And Yet, Or Just For This Reason, It's So Fascinating To Be A Woman. It's An Adventure That Takes Such Courage, A Challenge That's Never Boring. You'll Have So Many Things To Engage You If You're Born A Woman. To Begin With, You'll Have To Struggle To Maintain That If God Exists He Might Even Be An Old Woman With White Hair Or A Beautiful Girl. Then You'll Have To Struggle To Explain That It Wasn't Sin That Was Born On The Day When Eve Picked An Apple, What Was Born That Day Was A Splendid Virtue Called Disobedience.