When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
Nawal El SaadawiHome is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
Nawal El SaadawiThe medical profession [in Egypt] is also very commercial. Health is not given to the poor. You know, if you have money, you have medical care; if you do not, then you are in trouble. I was not ready at all to build my economic security on the diseases of people, on suffering, especially of women and children. So, in a way, I rebelled against it.
Nawal El SaadawiWar criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi