She would take him to faraway lands to observe foreign ways, so he could get closer to the strangeness within himself.

I knew that if you moved around, your mind worked faster, because you were constantly seeing new things that you had to respond to.

Beauty is in the skin! Take care of it, oil it, clean it, scrub it, perfume it, and put on your best clothes, even if there is no special occasion, and you'll feel like a queen. If society is hard on you, fight back by pampering your skin. Skin is political. Otherwise why would the imams order us to hide it?

To be alive is to move around, to search for better places, to scavenge the planet looking for more hospitable islands.

There are two prerequisites to growing wings: the first is to feel encircled and the second is to believe that you can break the circle.

Dignity is to have a dream, a strong one, which gives you a vision, a world where you have a place, where whatever it is you have to contribute makes a difference.

Beauty is within; you just have to bring it out.

When you are in trouble, you need to put all your energies into thinking that there is a way out. Then, the bottom, the dark hole, becomes just a springboard from which you can leap so high that your head might hit a cloud.

Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.

A human being was connected to the world through his or her skin and how could someone with clogged pores feel the environment or be sensitive to its vibrations?