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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
— Nawal El Saadawi
When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
— 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.
— Nawal El Saadawi
I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
— Nawal El Saadawi
I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Who said to kill does not require gentleness?
— Nawal El Saadawi
Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
— Nawal El Saadawi
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.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics ... There is no such thing as neutrality.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Ever since I was a child I used to hear my father say: 'If the price we pay for freedom is high, we pay a much higher price if we accept to be slaves.
— Nawal El Saadawi
My work is not worthy of respect. Why then do you join in it with me?
— 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.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.
— Nawal El Saadawi
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
— Nawal El Saadawi
Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.
— Nawal El Saadawi
The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.
— Nawal El Saadawi
We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
— Nawal El Saadawi
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.
— Nawal El Saadawi
There is a proverb that says, 'Talk so that I may know who you are.' But I say, 'Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.
— Nawal El Saadawi
We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.
— Nawal El Saadawi
If you are creative you must be dissident.
— Nawal El Saadawi
They said, "You are a savage and dangerous woman."I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous. — Nawal El Saadawi
Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
— Nawal El Saadawi
She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.
— Nawal El Saadawi
The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
— Nawal El Saadawi
When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.
— Nawal El Saadawi
I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.
— Nawal El Saadawi
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it's impossible.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
— Nawal El Saadawi
The mask of secularism may differ in thickness, may be less visible, but religion is always there hidden under hallowed big beautiful words
— Nawal El Saadawi
My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
— Nawal El Saadawi
When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
— 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.
— Nawal El Saadawi
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
— Nawal El Saadawi
If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
— Nawal El Saadawi
All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Fearing servility, people become servile.
— Nawal El Saadawi
In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
— Nawal El Saadawi
My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
— Nawal El Saadawi