Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.
Nawal El Saadawi
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Nawal El Saadawi
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 27
Died: 2021
Died: March 21
Feminist
Gynaecologist
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Politician
Psychiatrist
Writer
Nawal el-Saadaoui
Nawal al Sadaawi
Nawal Saadawi
Nawal as-Saadawi
Nawäl as-Saʿdāwi
Masters
Knew
Woman
Hate
Men
Hated
Master
Slave
More quotes by Nawal El Saadawi
Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known when class patriarchal society had established itself and imposed monogamous marriage on women. Motherhood is like sun and rain and plants, a quality and product of nature which does not require laws or systems in order to exist.
Nawal El Saadawi
Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.
Nawal El Saadawi
Who said to kill does not require gentleness?
Nawal El Saadawi
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Nawal El Saadawi
Fearing servility, people become servile.
Nawal El Saadawi
In history, the millions win that is democracy.
Nawal El Saadawi
All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
Nawal El Saadawi
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?
Nawal El Saadawi
They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.
Nawal El Saadawi
First of all, I hated the medical profession. Medical education in Egypt was taken from the British, French, colonial educational system. And it's very, very lacking - there is no sexology. I never read the word clitoris in any medical book when I was educated.
Nawal El Saadawi
To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
Nawal El Saadawi
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.
Nawal El Saadawi
Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.
Nawal El Saadawi
Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.
Nawal El Saadawi
Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.
Nawal El Saadawi
Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.
Nawal El Saadawi
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.
Nawal El Saadawi
The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
Nawal El Saadawi
My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
Nawal El Saadawi
When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
Nawal El Saadawi
