Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

Exercising choice is a good thing.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

You get to do what you want to do – if that’s what you want to do.

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

What, in the end, is freedom but the ability to choose?

The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

I have the freedom to choose the roles I want.

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.