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

“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. ”

“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.”

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

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

“I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.”