“The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a khali is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.”

On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.

Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society – the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can’t be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.

The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]