Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor ] is a mixture.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

Woman at Point Zero I wrote during the '70s in Arabic. It came in English in '82. So, almost ten years' difference between the Arabic and the English.

First 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.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

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

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

There is not a revolution that succe Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed.

You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.