All Nawal El Saadawi Quotes
- If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy. Anything Well
- Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies. Honesty
- My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly. Bite
- You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper… Any
- Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us… Accepted
- Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But… Banned
- Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s… Apartment
- Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. People feel they know me and the minute… Appreciated
- 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… Ability
- Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith. Doubt
- Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a… Been
- When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident. Dissident
- To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth. Beauty
- When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated. Husband
- There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will… Eye
- Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison. Appreciated
- 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 fiction… Abolish
- You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor. All
- I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.' All
- The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the… Absolute
- Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy… Buy
- They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous. Dangerous
- All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and… All
- Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low,… Bind
- What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present… African
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