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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?
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 Writer
Politician
Psychiatrist
Writer
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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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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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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We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.
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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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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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In history, the millions win that is democracy.
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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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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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I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine.
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My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
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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.
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Who said to kill does not require gentleness?
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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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If you are creative, you must be dissident.
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