Author: Nawal El Saadawi

Quotes

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

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

- Nawal El Saadawi

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

- Nawal El Saadawi

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

- Nawal El Saadawi

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

- Nawal El Saadawi

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.

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

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

- Nawal El Saadawi

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

- Nawal El Saadawi

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

- Nawal El Saadawi

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

- Nawal El Saadawi

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