Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere. Nawal El Saadawi More Quotes by Nawal El Saadawi More Quotes From Nawal El Saadawi 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 loss sleep 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 living-a-lie feels lying 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. Nawal El Saadawi becoming age opposites I had to educate myself about female circumcision, about the clitoris, about sexology. We studied gynecology only. Pregnancy, maternal care, etc. Nawal El Saadawi gynecology female pregnancy 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 succes revolution We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression. Nawal El Saadawi oppression religious class 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. Nawal El Saadawi names people thinking Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith. Nawal El Saadawi doubt steps firsts Who said to kill does not require gentleness? Nawal El Saadawi gentleness doe said Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful. Nawal El Saadawi different beautiful love Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. Nawal El Saadawi home book world 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 Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned. Nawal El Saadawi military dark children 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 egypt husband world 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 dignity revolution justice 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 egypt military religious 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 desire-to-live life-and-death desire 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. Nawal El Saadawi father children years 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 doctors cutting people 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 mixtures inspired doctors
