"Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil." — Nawal El Saadawi
"Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil."
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Nawal El Saadawi
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52 Quotes by Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi has 52 quotes on this site.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
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My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
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You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the…
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Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives.…
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Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is…
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Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be…
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. People feel they…
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Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy…
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Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
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Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more…
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When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
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More Plastic Quotes
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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not…
— Margaret Atwood
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Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on…
— Roseanne Barr
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I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery…
— Halle Berry
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I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially…
— Jello Biafra
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You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie…
— Cate Blanchett
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And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone.…
— David Bowie
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There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents…
— Brandon Boyd
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The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in…
— James Buchan
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In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I…
— Julie Burchill
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To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage…
— Sophia Bush
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins,…
— A. S. Byatt
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Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.
— Tia Carrere
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