Author: Nawal El Saadawi

Quotes

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

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

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

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

- Nawal El Saadawi

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.

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

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

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

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

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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