Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

- Nawal El Saadawi

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

- Nawal El Saadawi

Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, a…

- Nawal El Saadawi

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

- Nawal El Saadawi

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

- Nawal El Saadawi

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

- Nawal El Saadawi

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

- Nawal El Saadawi

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

- Nawal El Saadawi

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfic…

- Nawal El Saadawi