There is water in every lane, so it is OK.
All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
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.
It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that's the most important thing for me.
Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust. . . but I'm not sure how evolved or resolved that lust was.
In order to do well, missionary work has to be totally positive.
It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early days in seventeenth-century London.