"There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so……" — Nawal El Saadawi
"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 know who you are."
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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 Eye Quotes
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
— Aristotle
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and…
— Neil Armstrong
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
— Victoria Abril
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
— Margaret Atwood
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
— Saint Augustine
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He…
— Teresa of Avila
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