Everybody Has To Die, Firdaus. I Will

Something I Tried To Hold Onto, To Touch If Only For A Moment, But It Slipped Away From Me Like The Air, Like An Illusion, Or A Dream That Floats Away And Is Lost. I Wept In My Sleep As Though It Was Something I Was Losing Now; A Loss I Was Experiencing For The First Time, And Not Something I Had Lost A Long Time Ago.

First Of All, All Writing Includes Some Part Of The Self. The Relationship Of The Self And The Other Exists In Writing, Whether Autobiographical Or Novel. There Is A Self And An Other.

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.

I Now Knew That All Of Us Were Prostitutes Who Sold Themselves At Varying Prices, And That An Expensive Prostitute Was Better Than A Cheap One.

Women Were Everywhere In The Revolution. Women Participated In It, And Many Women Were Killed. Then We Had The Right To Speak Up And Gain Some More Rights, But What Happened Was There Was A Backlash. Why? Because We Have The Salafists, Muslim Brothers, Religious Groups.