I never stopped writing. I started writing when I was twelve years of age. And I was writing all the time. But nothing was translated until thirty years after I started writing, when The Hidden Face of Eve was translated in 1980.
Nawal El SaadawiEverybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.
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