Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor ] is a mixture.
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty. '
Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.
There is not a revolution that succeeded in a few months. It takes years, even decades, to fulfill its goals. I am very hopeful because I trust the revolution and feel nobody can really conquer a nation that has decided to be united and to fight, and we decided to fight. The revolution is there, inside the Egyptians by the millions.
Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.
People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.
If anything, being a female has afforded me opportunities on YouTube that I necessarily didn't have in doing traditional comedy and auditioning in TV and film, and that whole world.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.