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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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Physician
Physician Writer
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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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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They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.
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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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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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Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.
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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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You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
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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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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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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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Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
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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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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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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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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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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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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.
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In history, the millions win that is democracy.
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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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