Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.
Nawal El SaadawiMan ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
Nawal El SaadawiTo 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 SaadawiThere is a proverb that says, โTalk so that I may know who you are.โ But I say, โShow me your eyes and I will know who you are.
Nawal El SaadawiThus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?
Nawal El Saadawi