Humanistic Elements Quotes by Nawal El Saadawi

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• If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
• Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
• My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
• 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…
• Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may…
• Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically…
• Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and…
• Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. People feel they know me…
• Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only…
• Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
• Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than…
• When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

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