Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.

I believe that woman are superior to men.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy.

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type

Traditionally, women have a lot of different roles in society. It is very difficult to balance all these roles and at the same time to compete with men. A leading, successful woman has to put in much bigger efforts to be more competent and faster, more dynamic and organized, than a successful man.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen

It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests ... Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did.

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn't perfect yet. We don't all have that. But we're trying.

Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

So much of the trouble is because I am a woman. To me it seems a very terrible thing to be a woman. There is one crown which perhaps is worth it all--a great love, a quiet home, and children. We all know that is all that is worthwhile, and yet we must peg away, showing off our wares on the market if we have money, or manufacturing careers for ourselves if we haven't.

Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties of women, the sphere of man and the sphere of woman, are mere arbitrary opinions, differing in different ages and countries, and dependent solely on the will and judgment of erring mortals.

I'm not trying to put our women on a pedestal that they don't deserve to be on. No man is a "man" without a woman: It's a woman that helps the man to be a man.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.