When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that… — 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,… — 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
I never stopped writing. I started writing when I was twelve years of age. And I was writing all the time. But… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now, although… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing,… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it… — 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
