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 SaadawiTo have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.
Nawal El SaadawiMen impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.
Nawal El SaadawiYou know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
Nawal El SaadawiSomething I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.
Nawal El Saadawi