The Essential Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

“I had believed that my homeland was the whole world, just as when I was a child I believed that our street was the whole homeland. As I grew up so the street grew smaller. But when my being reached out beyond the homeland, the earth shrank and new feelings, that I was larger than before, filled me.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, The Essential Nawal El Saadawi: A Reader