Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

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

  Nawal El Saadawi

  World, Unjust, Humanitarian

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• Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

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  Democracy, Half, Revolution

  Interview with Joseph Mayton, progressive.org. December 12, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Lying, World, Danger

  "Memoirs from the Women's Prison". Book by Nawal El Saadawi, 1986.

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• To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

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  Art, Mean, Creative Nonfiction

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Men, Way

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.24, Zed Books

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• Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

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  Motivational, Honesty, Lying

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• Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

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  Doubt, Firsts, Steps

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• Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.

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  Mean, Men, Disease And Death

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.84, Zed Books

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• Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.

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  Integrity, Men, Our World

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.99, Zed Books

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• We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

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  Religious, Class, Oppression

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• 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.

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  Men, Hands, Desire

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• When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

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  Beautiful, Stupid, Intelligent

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

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  Mean, Creative, Honest

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• She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

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  Desea

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.95, Zed Books

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• Me dijeron: "Eres una mujer salvaje y peligrosa". Estoy diciendo la verdad. Y la verdad es salvaje y peligrosa.

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  Independent, Savages, Truth Is

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• To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

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  Truth, Mean, Wish

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.112, Zed Books

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• We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

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  Reality, World, Shapes

  Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Two Women in One”, p.26, Saqi

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• moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

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  People, Our Society, Morality

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.41, Zed Books

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• If you are creative, you must be dissident.

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  Creative, Dissidents, Ifs

  Nawal El Saadawi (1997). “The Nawal El Saadawi Reader”, Zed Books

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• The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

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  Sex, Issues, Religion

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• Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.

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  Fall, Blow, Men

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.94, Zed Books

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• La cirugía plástica es un velo posmoderno.

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  Veils, Plastic, Surgery

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• My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.

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  Heart, Skins, My Heart

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• 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.

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  Children, Father, Rain

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• 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.

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  Eye, May, Show Me

  Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi”, p.176, Zed Books Ltd.

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