Nawal El Saadawi Quotes


If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.


Citations

Cooke, Rachel. "Nawal El Saadawi: 'Do you feel you are liberated? I feel I am not'." The Guardian, Guardian News & Media, 15 Apr. 2010.

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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.