I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.

Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.

They oppressed us but unable to kill our spirit.

Successful people have always been the ones to learn from the mistakes of others as well as from their successes.

Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.

For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.

Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.

So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

I'll alight upon words because I think they suggest any number of things.