Nawal El Saadawi Quotes about Writing

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When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

Nawal El Saadawi

Husband, Writing

Nawal El Saadawi (1997). “The Nawal El Saadawi Reader”, Zed Books

I never stopped writing. I started writing when I was twelve years of age. And I was writing all the time. But nothing was translated until thirty years after I started writing, when The Hidden Face of Eve was translated in 1980.

Nawal El Saadawi

Writing, Years, Age

Source: muse.jhu.edu

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.

Nawal El Saadawi

Memories, Writing, Missing

Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi”, p.13, Zed Books Ltd.

When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under "Mental Health and Psychiatry." And of course, I see very few people, because I give much more time to writing. So I cannot say that I really stopped medicine, but I practice medicine - or psychiatry - in a very different way. In an artistic way!

Nawal El Saadawi

Writing, Egypt, Practice

Source: muse.jhu.edu

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other.

Nawal El Saadawi

Writing, Self, Firsts

Source: muse.jhu.edu

Nawal El Saadawi Quotes about Writing

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