My Three Husbands Were Afraid Of Me.

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.

Unity Is Power; Without Unity Women Cannot Fight For Their Rights Anywhere.

If You Are Creative, You Must Be Dissident.

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.

Words Should Not Seek To Please, To Hide The Wounds In Our Bodies, Or The Shameful Moments In Our Lives. They May Hurt, Give Us Pain, But They Can Also Provoke Us To Question What We Have Accepted For Thousands Of Years.