If You Are Creative, You Must Be

Memory Is Never Complete. There Are Always Parts Of It That Time Has Amputated. Writing Is A Way Of Retrieving Them, Of Bringing The Missing Parts Back To It, Of Making It More Holistic.

My Skin Is Soft, But My Heart Is Cruel, And My Bite Is Deadly.

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.

The Feminists Who Are Aware Of The Effects Of Patriarchy Realize That We Are All In The Same Boat From The Dangers Of Patriarchy, And That The Oppression Of Women Is Universal.

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.