Author: Nawal El Saadawi

Quotes

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

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

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

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

- Nawal El Saadawi

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

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

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

- Nawal El Saadawi

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

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

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.

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

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