Nawal El Saadawi

There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from…

— Nawal El Saadawi

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and…

— Nawal El Saadawi

We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

— Nawal El Saadawi

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

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

— Nawal El Saadawi

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

— Nawal El Saadawi

I had to educate myself about female circumcision, about the clitoris, about sexology. We studied gynecology only. Pregnancy, maternal care, etc.

— Nawal El Saadawi

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers…

— Nawal El Saadawi

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

— Nawal El Saadawi

“Now i had learnt that honor required large sums of money to protect it, but that large sums of money could not…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“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

Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of…

— Nawal El Saadawi

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

— Nawal El Saadawi

Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of…

— Nawal El Saadawi

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

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

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

— Nawal El Saadawi

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

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

— Nawal El Saadawi

People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“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

First of all, I hated the medical profession. Medical education in Egypt was taken from the British, French, colonial educational system. And…

— Nawal El Saadawi

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they…

— Nawal El Saadawi

There is not a revolution that succe Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed.

— Nawal El Saadawi