All The Men I Did Get To

If You Are Creative, You Must Be Dissident.

Doubt Is The First Step Towards Knowledge, Not Faith.

During The '80s I Wrote Memoirs From The Women's Prison. This Is One Of My Most Important Books. It Came Out In Arabic In '83. About My Experience In Prison.

Interviewer: What Would You Say To A Woman In This Country Who Assumes She Is No Longer Oppressed, Who Believes Women's Liberation Has Been Achieved? El Saadawi: Well I Would Think She Is Blind. Like Many People Who Are Blind To Gender Problems, To Class Problems, To International Problems. She's Blind To What's Happening To Her.

Thus, After A Period Of About Two Thousand Years The Greatest Crime Became To Worship A God Other Than The God Of Moses, Whereas Injustice Became A Minor Sin. I Began To Ask Myself How This Change Had Come About. Was It Linked To A New Order In Which The Female Goddesses Had Been Replaced By One Male God?