Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

For me, a feminist is a self-empowered woman who strives to move things forward for not only women but also men in terms of freedom and liberation.

If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. Feminism has to do with everything in the world, a vision of how the world can be. I have great doubts about Utopias, but I just keep on thinking there is a better way to live than the way we live now.

In fighting for women, we fight for humanity. We fight for the future - for everyone.

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

I would like the world to know that Yemeni women are strong, and if empowered, they can achieve. The world needs to look beyond stereotypes and dress code. In our hearts, we are just human beings who want to live a dignified life. Is that too much to ask for?

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

To be a feminist is to be alive.

When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world. Such a truth is woman's right to equal liberty with man. She was born with it. It was hers before she comprehended it. It is prescribed upon all the powers and faculties of her soul, and no custom, law nor usage can ever destroy it.

Build the structure of representative government .… Enfranchise the women …. Establish a free labor movement …. Abolish police oppression …. Decentralize political power …. Separate church from state.

Women’s rights are human rights.

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

Women's rights are human rights.

I'm proud to be a feminist because making sure that everyone understands we all have a role in fighting for equality is the only way to move forward.