Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
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
I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift… — 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… — 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
Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular. There was not a single… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
There was not a single Islamic slogan [in Egypt]. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive. — 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