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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Nawal El Saadawi
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Nawal El Saadawi
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 27
Died: 2021
Died: March 21
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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.
Nawal El Saadawi
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.
Nawal El Saadawi
Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.
Nawal El Saadawi
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.
Nawal El Saadawi
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.
Nawal El Saadawi
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi
Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
Nawal El Saadawi
Who said to kill does not require gentleness?
Nawal El Saadawi
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.
Nawal El Saadawi
If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
Nawal El Saadawi
She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.
Nawal El Saadawi
Fearing servility, people become servile.
Nawal El Saadawi
Unity is power without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
Nawal El Saadawi
My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
Nawal El Saadawi
They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.
Nawal El Saadawi
Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.
Nawal El Saadawi
I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.
Nawal El Saadawi
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.
Nawal El Saadawi
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.
Nawal El Saadawi
We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.
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