Nawal El Saadawi Quotes


All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.


Citations

El Saadawi, Nawal. Woman at Point Zero. Translated by Sherif Hetata, Zed Books, 1983.

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Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi
  • Born: October 27, 1931
  • Died: March 21, 2021
  • Nationality: Egyptian
  • Profession: Physician, Psychiatrist, Author

Nawal El Saadawi was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. Described as "the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World", and "Egypt's most radical woman", she was the author of several books on the oppression of women in Islam, including the practice of female genital mutilation; She wrote and spoke to ban it. She also wrote and spoke to ban male circumcision.