War is the business of barbarians

Except to heaven, she is nought Except for angels, lone Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown Except for winds, provincial Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies

A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law

She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes she must not switch herself this way and that she must not shout and she must not, while wearing her bridal veil, smoke a cigarette