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“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.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“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

“Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now, although I am out of prison, I continue to live inside a prison of another sort, one without steel bars. For the technology of oppression and might without justice has become more advanced, and the fetters imposed on mind and body have become invisible. The most dangerous shackles are the invisible ones, because they deceive people into believing they are free. This delusion is the new prison that people inhabit today, north and south, east and west...We inhabit the age of the technology of false consciousness, the technology of hiding truths behind amiable humanistic slogans that may change from one era to another...Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Memoirs from the Women's Prison

“I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“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.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“يفقد الإنسان كرامته حين يعجز عن الإنفاق على نفسه ”
― نوال السعداوي

“الإنسان إنسان بعقله وليس بجسده. ولهذا يجب أن يرتبط مفهوم الشرف بعقل الإنسان سواء ذكرا أو أنثى. فالعقل الصادق هو الإنسان الشريف. والعقل المفكر المنتج هو الإنسان الشريف”
― نوال السعداوي, قضية المرأة المصرية السياسية والجنسية

“ليس هناك أي دليل علمي في البيولوجيا أو الفسيولوجيا والتشريح ما يثبت أن المرأة أقل من الرجال عقلاً أو جسداً أو نفسياً .إن الوضع الأدنى للمرأة فُرض عليها من المجتمع لأسباب اقتصادية واجتماعية لصالح الرجل ومن أجل البقاء واستمرار الأسرة الأبوية,التي يملك فيها الأب الزوجة والأطفال كما يملك قطعة الأرض”
― نوال السعداوي, الأنثى هي الأصل

“إن المعرفة هي إثارة عدم الرضا في نفس الانسان من أجل أن يعمل على تغيير حياته إلى الأفضل. ولولا عدم الرضا لما تقدم الإنسان ولكانت حياته كحياة الحيوانات. إن الحيوانات لا تشعر بعدم الرضا، ولا تشعر بالقلق، ولذلك هي لا تغير حياتها إلى الأفضل.”
― نوال السعداوي, المرأة والصراع النفسي

“You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.”
― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

“I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.”
― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

“كيف يمكن للإنسان أن يتخذ الشك عقيدة ويلتزم بها عن حسن نية ؟ هذا ما لا أستطيع فهمه . هؤلاء الفلاسفة الشكاكون إما لا وجود لهم وإما هم أشقى سكان الأرض . الارتياب في أمور تهمنا معرفتها وضع شاق بالنسبة للعقل البشري . لا يتحمله طويلا , يلزمه الاختيار , فيفضل أن يخطئ على ألا يؤمن .”
― جان جاك روسو, دين الفطرة

“الناس يصرون علي رؤيتي علي صوره تخالف تماما ما أنا عليه و إنهم لن يروا أبدا في مكاني سوي الشخص الذي صاغوه لأنفسهم وشكلوه وفق هواهم ليكرهوه كما يشاءون ، و إذن فإنني أكون مخطئا لو أنني تأثرت من الطريقه التي يرونني بها إذ لا يجب أن أعيرها أي اهتمام حقيقي لأنني لست أنا من يرونه علي هذه الصوره!”
― جان جاك روسو

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
― Fromm, Eric, The Art of Loving

“Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume.p97.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche