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Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.
Nawal El Saadawi
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Nawal El Saadawi
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 27
Died: 2021
Died: March 21
Feminist
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We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.
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My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
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If you are creative, you must be dissident.
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I've lived here [in Egypt] among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia. The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.
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I've lived in Egypt among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia.
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Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor]. All this. They left only some very, very minute parts. And also the political, the political element in it. So in a way, they cut pieces that to my mind were very important.
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You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
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Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.
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During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.
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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 words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?
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