“ Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?' ”

“ I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.' ”

“ Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home. ”

“ War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial. ”

“ I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped. ”

“ You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor. ”

“ Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom. ”

“ When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions. ”

“ 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. ”