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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
Physician Writer
Politician
Psychiatrist
Writer
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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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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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In history, the millions win that is democracy.
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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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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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There is not a revolution that succe Saudi Arabia paid $7 billion for the Salafists to come, and the United States and Israel are pouring a lot of money into Egypt. Why? To divide the country by religion.
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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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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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I've lived here [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. The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular.
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Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
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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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She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.
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Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
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Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.
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Woman at Point Zero I wrote during the '70s in Arabic. It came in English in '82. So, almost ten years' difference between the Arabic and the English.
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