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All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.
Nawal El Saadawi
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Nawal El Saadawi
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 27
Died: 2021
Died: March 21
Feminist
Gynaecologist
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Politician
Psychiatrist
Writer
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What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.
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When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under Mental Health and Psychiatry. And of course, I see very few people, because I give much more time to writing. So I cannot say that I really stopped medicine, but I practice medicine - or psychiatry - in a very different way. In an artistic way!
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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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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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In history, the millions win that is democracy.
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The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.
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If you are creative, you must be dissident.
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My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
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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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Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.
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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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