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You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

Nawal El Saadawi

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Nawal El Saadawi
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 27
Died: 2021
Died: March 21
Feminist
Gynaecologist
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Politician
Psychiatrist
Writer
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Nawal al Sadaawi
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Nawal as-Saadawi
Nawäl as-Saʿdāwi
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Fearing servility, people become servile.
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She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.
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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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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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