Nawal El-Saadawi Quotes
Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

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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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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 . . . Read more

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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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أعتقد أن المرأة مهما بلغ جمال جسمها فإنها تفتقد الأنوثة إذا كانت غبية أو ضعيفة الشخصية أو متصنعة أو كاذبة.

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She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

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Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now, although I am out of prison, I continue to live inside a prison of another sort, one without steel bars. For the technology of oppression and might without justice has become mor . . . Read more

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If you are creative, you must be dissident.

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