Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

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.

I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.

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.

The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.