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Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
“They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.”
“Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.”
“All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.”
“She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.”
“I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.”
“Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.”
“Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.”
“My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.”
“Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.”
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Book Keywords:
death, life