Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawiis an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist. She has written many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. She has been described as "the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World"...
NationalityEgyptian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 October 1931
CountryEgypt
Nawal El Saadawi quotes about
religious military egypt
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.
expensive
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.
sex issues religion
The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.
sex stories neutrality
Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.
independent savages truth-is
They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.
dream sleep loss
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.
homeland
We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.
veils plastic surgery
Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
opposites age becoming
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.
powerful husband three
My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
fighting rights unity
Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
war israel criminals
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
children father years
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.
feminist boat realizing
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.