Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
Nawal El SaadawiWe 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.
Nawal El SaadawiFirst 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.
Nawal El Saadawi