Any Quote by 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 the committee…

— 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 art, between…

— 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 which should…

— 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 of patriarchy,…

— 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 be obtained…

— 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, Bodour, break…

— 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 Moses, whereas…

— Nawal El Saadawi