Nawal El Saadawi Quotes - Page 3

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• Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• 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

  Believe, Love You, Ears

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• Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Doe, Said, Gentleness

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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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• 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

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

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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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• There is not a revolution that succe Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Revolution, Succes

  Source: progressive.org

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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.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Dream, Sleep, Loss

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

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• Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Truth, Perfect, Missing

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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.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Cutting, Men, Doctors

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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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.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  War, Israel, Criminals

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

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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.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  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.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Lying, Living A Lie, Feels

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

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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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• 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.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  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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• All revolutions in history have obstacles.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Revolution, Obstacles

  Source: progressive.org

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• The medical profession [in Egypt] is also very commercial. Health is not given to the poor. You know, if you have money, you have medical care; if you do not, then you are in trouble. I was not ready at all to build my economic security on the diseases of people, on suffering, especially of women and children. So, in a way, I rebelled against it.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Children, Egypt, People

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• There is not a revolution that succe Saudi Arabia paid $7 billion for the Salafists to come, and the United States and Israel are pouring a lot of money into Egypt. Why? To divide the country by religion.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Country, Israel, Egypt

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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, Realizing, Boat

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• You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Doctors, Creative, Looks

  "For Egyptian Activist, A Dream Finally Realized". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 12, 2011.

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• 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

  Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi”, p.108, Zed Books Ltd.

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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.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Christian, Religious, Egypt

  Source: progressive.org

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