We Here In Egypt Are Fed Up

Something I Tried To Hold Onto, To Touch If Only For A Moment, But It Slipped Away From Me Like The Air, Like An Illusion, Or A Dream That Floats Away And Is Lost. I Wept In My Sleep As Though It Was Something I Was Losing Now; A Loss I Was Experiencing For The First Time, And Not Something I Had Lost A Long Time Ago.

What Makes Revolutionary Thought Unique Is Its Clarity And Dignity, And Its Clear Grasp Of Freedom And Justice: Simple, Clear Words That Are Understood Without The Need For Any Help From Elite Writers Or Thinkers.

We Never Know The Reality Of Things: We See Only What We Are Aware Of. It Is Our Consciousness That Determines The Shape Of The World Around Us -- Its Size, Motion And Meaning.

I Had To Educate Myself About Female Circumcision, About The Clitoris, About Sexology. We Studied Gynecology Only. Pregnancy, Maternal Care, Etc.

Women Are Suffering Because They Are Being Excluded. The High Military Council Excluded Women From The Committee To Change The Constitution [of Egypt]. We Cannot Be Liberated As Women In A Society Built On Class Oppression Or Gender Oppression Or Religious Oppression.