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Ever since I was a child I used to hear my father say: ‘If the price we pay for freedom is high, we pay a much higher price if we accept to be slaves

— Nawal El Tatawy

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Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself

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.

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

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

Everybody has to die. I prefer to die for a crime I have committed rather than to die for one of the crimes which you have committed.

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