“If you are creative, you must be dissident.”

“You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love.”

“Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.”

“But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.”

“My work is not worthy of respect. Why then do you join in it with me?”

“They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.”I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.”

“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. ”