"Words should not seek to please, to hide……" — Nawal El Saadawi
"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 pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years."
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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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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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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm…
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
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