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• I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Life And Death, Desire, Desire To Live

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.110, Zed Books

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• Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

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  Doe, Said, Gentleness

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• The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Husband, Egypt, World

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• I had to educate myself about female circumcision, about the clitoris, about sexology. We studied gynecology only. Pregnancy, maternal care, etc.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Pregnancy, Gynecology, Female

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.

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  Dream, Sleep, Loss

  Nawal El Saadawi (2015). “Woman at Point Zero”, p.25, Zed Books Ltd.

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• 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.

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  Memories, Writing, Missing

  Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi”, p.13, Zed Books Ltd.

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• 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.

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  Expensive

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.82, Zed Books

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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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  Cutting, Men, Doctors

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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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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  Hate, Men, Slave

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.104, Zed Books

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• Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.

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  Thinking, Names, People

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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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  Educational, Taken, Book

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.

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  Lying, Living A Lie, Feels

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.25, Zed Books

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• Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of Egypt]. We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

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  Religious, Military, Egypt

  Interview with Joseph Mayton, progressive.org. December 12, 2011.

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• Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Book, Home, World

  "Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt's radical feminist" by Homa Khaleeli, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2010.

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• I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor ] is a mixture.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Doctors, Mixtures, Inspired

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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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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  Christian, Religious, Egypt

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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.

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  Unique, Simple, Justice

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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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  Book, Important, Prison

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

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  Powerful, Husband, Three

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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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  War, Israel, Criminals

  "Forty years of women's lib" by Nawal El Saadawi, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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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.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Religious, Brother, Rights

  Interview with Joseph Mayton, progressive.org. December 12, 2011.

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• The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Justice, Revolution, Dignity

  Interview with Joseph Mayton, progressive.org. December 12, 2011.

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• When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under "Mental Health and Psychiatry." And of course, I see very few people, because I give much more time to writing. So I cannot say that I really stopped medicine, but I practice medicine - or psychiatry - in a very different way. In an artistic way!

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  Writing, Egypt, Practice

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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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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  Children, Father, Years

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.230, Zed Books

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• People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Cutting, Doctors, People

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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