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Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي‎, born 27 October 1931) is 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".

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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.

Dream, Loss, Sleep, Slipped, Though

My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

Husband, Husbands, Powerful, Three

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

Obstacles, Revolution, Succes

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Dissident, Humanitarian, Unjust, World

I've lived in Egypt among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia.

Among, Baha, Christian, Christians, Conflict, Egypt

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

History, Obstacles, Revolution, Revolutions

Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.

Beautiful, Different, Love, Person, World

Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known when class patriarchal society had established itself and imposed monogamous marriage on women. Motherhood is like sun and rain and plants, a quality and product of nature which does not require laws or systems in order to exist.

Children, Father, Rain, Sun, Order

Fearing servility, people become servile.

Become, Fearing, People, Servile, Servility

The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor]. All this. They left only some very, very minute parts. And also the political, the political element in it. So in a way, they cut pieces that to my mind were very important.

Cutting, Doctor, Doctors, Left, Men, Parts

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

Missing, Perfect, Prevents, Truth

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

Beauty, Creative, Honest, Mean, Say, Truth

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

Men, Hands, Desire, Filled, Smashing, Lift

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

Desire, Desire To Live, Die, Fear, Life And Death, Triumphed

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.

Bringing, Holistic, Memories, Missing, Retrieving, Writing

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

Creative, Dissident, Dissidents, Ifs

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

Creative, Home, Loved, Prison, Safe

Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed. Then we had the right to speak up and gain some more rights, but what happened was there was a backlash. Why? Because we have the Salafists, Muslim Brothers, religious groups.

Brother, Gain, Participated, Religious, Rights

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.

Age, Becoming, Old, Opposites

There is not a revolution that succe Saudi Arabia paid $7 billion for the Salafists to come, and the United States and Israel are pouring a lot of money into Egypt. Why? To divide the country by religion.

Billion, Country, Egypt, Israel, States

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