Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

I have never been ashamed of calling myself a feminist, and I believe passionately in women's rights.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.

I tell you that men will always respect women when they compel it by their actions; and if women today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation the men would be compelled to grant it. The women of the country have the power in their hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

I'm always trying to push for women's rights.

I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.

Women have not had their rights come easily.

Women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights.

Sisters all, let us not underestimate our power.

We [women] seek equality. We don't seek sameness.

Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about “us”; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

Sisters, I ain't clear what you be after. If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half the human family be stifled. ... The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. Suddenly the bandage is removed from the other eye and the whole body is filled with light. It sees a circle where before it saw a segment. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it.