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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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Nawal as-Saadawi
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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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Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.
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I had to educate myself about female circumcision, about the clitoris, about sexology. We studied gynecology only. Pregnancy, maternal care, etc.
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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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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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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.
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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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Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.
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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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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
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If you are creative, you must be dissident.
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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 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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