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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
Feminist
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Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.
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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.
Nawal El Saadawi
Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.
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She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.
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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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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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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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Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
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All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
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What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.
Nawal El Saadawi
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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My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
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We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.
Nawal El Saadawi
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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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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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 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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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
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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