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
Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Inciting women to rebel against the divine laws of Islam.’ This became the accusation that was leveled against me whenever I wrote… — 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
