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Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.
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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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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You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
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They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.
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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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All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
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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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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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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Unity is power without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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In history, the millions win that is democracy.
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Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known when class patriarchal society had established itself and imposed monogamous marriage on women. Motherhood is like sun and rain and plants, a quality and product of nature which does not require laws or systems in order to exist.
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Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
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My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
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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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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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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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Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
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People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.
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