I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!
Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty. '
Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.
There is not a revolution that succeeded in a few months. It takes years, even decades, to fulfill its goals. I am very hopeful because I trust the revolution and feel nobody can really conquer a nation that has decided to be united and to fight, and we decided to fight. The revolution is there, inside the Egyptians by the millions.
Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.
I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.
The thinnest people on the planet are those who eat the most carbohydrates.
Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
I am a tomboy and I love being with the boys and shooting guns and stuff.