Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawiis 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"...
NationalityEgyptian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 October 1931
CountryEgypt
philosophy love-you wells
If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
love beautiful world
Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.
hate men slave
I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.
order years two
Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?
children military dark
Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.
doubt firsts steps
Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
truth perfect missing
Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.
winning democracy millions
In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
home creative safe
Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
children father years
The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.
people our-society morality
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.
beautiful stupid intelligent
When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
opposites age becoming
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.
men different return
Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.