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“She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Want
“Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Book #Home #World
“If you are creative, you must be dissident.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Creative
“Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Integrity #Men #Our World
“Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Fall #Blow #Men
“Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Men #Passive
“Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Powerful #Men #Way
“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.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Men #Hands #Desire
“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

#Lying #World #Danger
“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?”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Love You #Believe #Ears
“When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#World #Unjust
“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

#Important
“I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi
“Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Motivational #Honesty #Lying
“Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, itâ€™s impossible.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Thinking #Names #People
“To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Mean #Creative #Honest
“There is a proverb that says, â€˜Talk so that I may know who you are.â€™ But I say, â€˜Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Eye #May #Show Me
“Who said to kill does not require gentleness?”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Doe #Said #Gentleness
“Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Memories #Writing #Missing
“In history, the millions win; that is democracy.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Winning #Democracy
“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

#Children #Father #Rain
“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.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Opposites #Age #Becoming
“My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Powerful #Husband #Three
“Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Order #Years #Two
“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

#War #Israel #Trials
“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

#Unique #Simple #Justice
“We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Egypt #Colonialism #Feds
“Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Fighting #Rights #Unity
“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.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Feminist #Boat #Realizing
“When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.”
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Beautiful #Stupid #Intelligent

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