What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present and pave the way to a better future. For example, if we delve more deeply… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as… — 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
