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Saadawi

1931 - 2021 (90)

Saadawi
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Quote 1

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well.

Quote 2

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Quote 3

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

Quote 4

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

Quote 5

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Quote 6

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

Quote 7

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

Quote 8

“I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.”