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
Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
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… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share
Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically… — 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
