You Poor, Deluded Woman...do You Believe There

Women Are Half The Society. You Cannot Have A Revolution Without Women. You Cannot Have Democracy Without Women. You Cannot Have Equality Without Women. You Can't Have Anything Without Women.

Here The Oppression Of Women Is Very Subtle. If We Take Female Circumcision, The Excision Of The Clitoris, It Is Done Physically In Egypt. But Here It Is Done Psychologically And By Education. So Even If Women Have The Clitoris, The Clitoris Was Banned; It Was Removed By Freudian Theory And By The Mainstream Culture.

Woman At Point Zero I Wrote During The '70s In Arabic. It Came In English In '82. So, Almost Ten Years' Difference Between The Arabic And The English.

You Know, I Look To Myself Mainly As A Creative Writer All My Life And A Medical Doctor.

Words Should Not Seek To Please, To Hide The Wounds In Our Bodies, Or The Shameful Moments In Our Lives. They May Hurt, Give Us Pain, But They Can Also Provoke Us To Question What We Have Accepted For Thousands Of Years.