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Mayada Srouji
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“Ever since I was a child I used to hear my father say: ‘If the price we pay for freedom is high, we pay a much higher price if we accept to be slaves.”
― Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
― Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
“Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known when class patriarchal society had established itself and imposed monogamous marriage on women. Motherhood is like sun and rain and plants, a quality and product of nature which does not require laws or systems in order to exist.”
― Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
― Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
“I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a
single word: Home.”
― Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
single word: Home.”
― Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
“In our country we use different words [than feminism] which mean the liberation or the emancipation of women. Of course I believe in the emancipation of women. It will change a lot of things in society for the better.
But, you know, the class patriarchal system under which we live oppresses men too and the discrimination from which women suffer is not good for the life of men. Don’t you think so?”
― Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
But, you know, the class patriarchal system under which we live oppresses men too and the discrimination from which women suffer is not good for the life of men. Don’t you think so?”
― Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
“How could I say to my father that what attracted me to living creatures was the shine in their eyes. Not any shine. The eyes of a wild cat or a tiger were shining. What I was looking for was a special shine that could be found only in the eyes of some human beings. I felt that Dr Rashad’s eyes were full of cruelty, that now and then I could spot a glimmer, but it was always sharp and short and calculating despite the soft, delicate way in which he was saying things to my father.”
― Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
― Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
Mayada’s 2025 Year in Books
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