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My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
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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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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Fearing servility, people become servile.
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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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Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.
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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
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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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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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Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
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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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Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.
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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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The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular. There was not a single Islamic slogan. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want to divide the revolution, and religion is a very strong weapon.
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