""They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.”
"I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.” "
— Nawal El Saadawi (Woman At Point Zero)

"“Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.”"
— Nawal El Saadawi (A Daughter of Isis: The Autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi)

"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."
— Nawal El Saadawi