“ 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
“ 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
“ Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why sh… Nawal El Saadawi
“ I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into pri… Nawal El Saadawi
“ Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is gov… Nawal El Saadawi
“ 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. Nawal El Saadawi
“ 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. Nawal El Saadawi
“ You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor. Nawal El Saadawi
“ I discovered that all these rulers were men. What they had in common was an avaricious and distorted personality, a never-ending appetite for money, sex and unlimited power. They were men who sowed co… Nawal El Saadawi
“ How is it possible to live? Life is so hard?’‘You must be harder than life, Firdaus. Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.’‘But you are not hard… 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
