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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.
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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All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
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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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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom 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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My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
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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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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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The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular. There was not a single Islamic slogan. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want to divide the revolution, and religion is a very strong weapon.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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