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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
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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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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The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
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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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If you are creative, you must be dissident.
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The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.
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Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
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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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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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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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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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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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You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
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In history, the millions win that is democracy.
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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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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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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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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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During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.
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