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I've Lived In Egypt Among Christians And Muslims, And We Never Had A Conflict. Now You Have A Conflict Between Christians And Muslims And Baha'is And Sunni And Shia.

Motherhood Goes Back In History To A Time When A Father Had No Way Of Knowing His Children. Fatherhood Only Became Known When Class Patriarchal Society Had Established Itself And Imposed Monogamous Marriage On Women. Motherhood Is Like Sun And Rain And Plants, A Quality And Product Of Nature Which Does Not Require Laws Or Systems In Order To Exist.

The Medical Profession [in Egypt] Is Also Very Commercial. Health Is Not Given To The Poor. You Know, If You Have Money, You Have Medical Care; If You Do Not, Then You Are In Trouble. I Was Not Ready At All To Build My Economic Security On The Diseases Of People, On Suffering, Especially Of Women And Children. So, In A Way, I Rebelled Against It.

We Here In Egypt Are Fed Up With U.s. Colonialism.

Home To Me Is The World Because My Books Have Been Translated Into More Than 30 Languages.