To Me, 'beauty' Means To Be Natural,

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.

I Never Stopped Writing. I Started Writing When I Was Twelve Years Of Age. And I Was Writing All The Time. But Nothing Was Translated Until Thirty Years After I Started Writing, When The Hidden Face Of Eve Was Translated In 1980.

All Revolutions In History Have Obstacles.

Democracy Is Not Just Freedom To Criticize The Government Or Head Of State, Or To Hold Parliamentary Elections. True Democracy Obtains Only When The People - Women, Men, Young People, Children - Have The Ability To Change The System Of Industrial Capitalism That Has Oppressed Them Since The Earliest Days Of Slavery: A System Based On Class Division, Patriarchy, And Military Might, A Hierarchical System That Subjugates People Merely Because They Are Born Poor, Or Female, Or Dark-skinned.

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.