We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

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.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

The philosophy of life is the ultimate of finest thoughts that reflects yourself and your outlook about the world.

Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

Surround yourself with like-minded, strong people, use your voices and choose courage over fear.

Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.