Plastic Surgery Is A Postmodern Veil.

Many People Come Here And They Think My Apartment Is A Poor Relative To My Name. But You Cannot Be Radical And Have Money, It’s Impossible.

Yet Not For A Single Moment Did I Have Any Doubts About My Own Integrity And Honour As A Woman. I Knew That My Profession Had Been Invented By Men, And That Men Were In Control Of Both Our Worlds, The One On Earth, And The One In Heaven. That Men Force Women To Sell Their Bodies At A Price, And That The Lowest Paid Body Is That Of A Wife. All Women Are Prostitutes Of One Kind Or Another.

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.

Everybody Has To Die, Firdaus. I Will Die, And You Will Die. The Important Thing Is How To Live Until You Die.

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.