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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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Physician Writer
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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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My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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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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Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
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She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do 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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I've lived 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.
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Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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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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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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We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.
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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
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In history, the millions win that is democracy.
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All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.
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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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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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If you are creative, you must be dissident.
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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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