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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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Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.
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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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Who said to kill does not require gentleness?
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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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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?
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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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All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
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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 am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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First of all, I hated the medical profession. Medical education in Egypt was taken from the British, French, colonial educational system. And it's very, very lacking - there is no sexology. I never read the word clitoris in any medical book when I was educated.
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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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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor]. All this. They left only some very, very minute parts. And also the political, the political element in it. So in a way, they cut pieces that to my mind were very important.
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Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
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You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
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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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Unity is power without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
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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 had to educate myself about female circumcision, about the clitoris, about sexology. We studied gynecology only. Pregnancy, maternal care, etc.
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