Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked… — 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
Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation… — 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
I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and… — 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
When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under "Mental Health and Psychiatry." And… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how… — 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
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