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.

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other.

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

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.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.