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
creative ifs dissidents
If you are creative, you must be dissident.
life-and-death desire desire-to-live
I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.
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.
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.
egypt colonialism feds
We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
revolution obstacles succes
All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
courage criminals israel war
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.