The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them,… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. People feel they know me… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Throughout the thirty years of our life together the authorities have given us no respite. They were after us all the time.… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“How many were the years of my life that went by before my body, and my self became really mine, to do… — 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
