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Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
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
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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 here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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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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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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Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed. Then we had the right to speak up and gain some more rights, but what happened was there was a backlash. Why? Because we have the Salafists, Muslim Brothers, religious groups.
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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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My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
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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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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
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