Nawal El Saadawi Quotes
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I like to do Pilates.
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When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you make these incredibly quick, quite intricate decisions about people based on very small amounts of coded information. We're good at that.
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I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!
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Speaking about same-sex marriage It’s about familiarity, and I think the only reason they’re uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven’t come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it’s about love-and that it is a civil right.
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I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.
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The relationship with producers has always, in my experience, been, uhhh - tense. Challenging. But the actors and crew become like family. You're there all those hours - more than on a movie. You come to depend on each other.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
