“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… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share
Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Ever since I was a child I used to hear my father say: ‘If the price we pay for freedom is high,… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The medical profession [in Egypt] is also very commercial. Health is not given to the poor. You know, if you have money,… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
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… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I had to educate myself about female circumcision, about the clitoris, about sexology. We studied gynecology only. Pregnancy, maternal care, etc. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy,… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Now i had learnt that honor required large sums of money to protect it, but that large sums of money could not be obtained… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Badreya whispered in her ear, “The price of freedom is high, Bodour, and there is no writing without freedom. Break your chains, Bodour, break… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
![“The medical profession [in Egypt] is also very commercial. Health is not given to the poor. You know, if you have money, you have medical care; if you do not, then you are in trouble. I was not ready at all to build my economic security on the diseases of people, on suffering, especially of women…” quote by Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/450/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_care_the-medical-profession-in-egypt-is-also_3036802.jpg)
