---
title: "2 Ability to change Quotes By Nawal El Saadawi"
description: "2 Ability to change quotes by Nawal El Saadawi. Plus more from Nawal El Saadawi and more Ability to change sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/411/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_ability-to-change_writing-such-has-been-my-crime-ever-sinc_608823.jpg"
---

> [“Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now, although I am out of prison, I continue to live inside a prison of another sort, one without steel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/writing-such-has-been-my-crime-ever-since-i-was-a-small-child-to-this/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/411/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_ability-to-change_writing-such-has-been-my-crime-ever-sinc_608823.jpg)

> [Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/democracy-is-not-just-freedom-to-criticize-the-government-or-head-of/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5c/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_ability_democracy-is-not-just-freedom-to-critici_681262.jpg)

## Other authors on Ability to change

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability-to-change/paulo-coelho/)

## More by Nawal El Saadawi

> [There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/there-is-not-a-revolution-that-succe-women-are-suffering-because-they/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/to-be-creative-means-to-connect-it-s-to-abolish-the-gap-between-the/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/we-here-in-egypt-are-fed-up-with-u-s-colonialism/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/education-should-be-totally-secular-i-am-not-telling-people-not-to/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/home-to-me-is-the-world-because-my-books-have-been-translated-into/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/doubt-is-the-first-step-towards-knowledge-not-faith/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [I had to educate myself about female circumcision, about the clitoris, about sexology. We studied gynecology only. Pregnancy, maternal care, etc.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/i-had-to-educate-myself-about-female-circumcision-about-the-clitoris/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/the-feminists-who-are-aware-of-the-effects-of-patriarchy-realize-that/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [If you are creative, you must be dissident.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/if-you-are-creative-you-must-be-dissident/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [“Now i had learnt that honor required large sums of money to protect it, but that large sums of money could not be obtained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/now-i-had-learnt-that-honor-required-large-sums-of-money-to-protect/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [“Badreya whispered in her ear, “The price of freedom is high, Bodour, and there is no writing without freedom. Break your chains, Bodour, break…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/badreya-whispered-in-her-ear-the-price-of-freedom-is-high-bodour-and/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/thus-after-a-period-of-about-two-thousand-years-the-greatest-crime/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/if-you-do-not-love-yourself-well-you-cannot-do-anything-well-that-s/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [ Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution \[of Egypt\]. We… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/women-are-suffering-because-they-are-being-excluded-the-high-military/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

> [Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/solidarity-between-women-can-be-a-powerful-force-of-change-and-can/)

[Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nawal-el-saadawi/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability-to-change/nawal-el-saadawi/#itemlist",
            "name": "2 Ability to change Quotes By Nawal El Saadawi",
            "numberOfItems": 2,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now, although I am out of prison, I continue to live inside a prison of another sort, one without steel bars. For the technology of oppression and might without justice has become more advanced, and the fetters imposed on mind and body have become invisible. The most dangerous shackles are the invisible ones, because they deceive people into believing they are free. This delusion is the new prison that people inhabit today, north and south, east and west...We inhabit the age of the technology of false consciousness, the technology of hiding truths behind amiable humanistic slogans that may change from one era to another...Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Nawal El Saadawi"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/writing-such-has-been-my-crime-ever-since-i-was-a-small-child-to-this/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/411/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_ability-to-change_writing-such-has-been-my-crime-ever-sinc_608823.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/411/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_ability-to-change_writing-such-has-been-my-crime-ever-sinc_608823.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/411/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_ability-to-change_writing-such-has-been-my-crime-ever-sinc_608823.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now…” — Nawal El Saadawi",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Nawal El Saadawi"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nawal-el-saadawi/democracy-is-not-just-freedom-to-criticize-the-government-or-head-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5c/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_ability_democracy-is-not-just-freedom-to-critici_681262.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5c/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_ability_democracy-is-not-just-freedom-to-critici_681262.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5c/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_ability_democracy-is-not-just-freedom-to-critici_681262.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary…” — Nawal El Saadawi",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability-to-change/nawal-el-saadawi/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability-to-change/nawal-el-saadawi/",
            "name": "Ability to change Quotes by Nawal El Saadawi",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability-to-change/nawal-el-saadawi/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/411/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_ability-to-change_writing-such-has-been-my-crime-ever-sinc_608823.jpg"
            },
            "description": "2 Ability to change quotes by Nawal El Saadawi. Plus more from Nawal El Saadawi and more Ability to change sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability-to-change/nawal-el-saadawi/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability-to-change/nawal-el-saadawi/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Ability To Change",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability-to-change/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Nawal El Saadawi",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability-to-change/nawal-el-saadawi/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```