117 Quotes by Nawal el Saadawi

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

Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'

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 nonfiction.

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

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

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

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

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.