"In the Western media and in Western popular thinking, the term "fundamentalist" is almost restricted to Islamic group…"

"When I travel in the Arab countries, I notice that the TV screen often shows two contradictory images one after the o…"

"All fundamentalists - whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim or otherwise - are partners in the attempt to breed division,…"

"We are all born creative. Creativity is not a gift that comes to us from heaven. It is something inside us. We are bo…"

"The woman sitting on the ground in front of me was a real woman, and the voice filling my ears with its sound, echoin…"

"Every single man I did get to know filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his f…"

"Do you prefer oranges or tangerines?"

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

"Her voice continued to echo in my ears, vibrating in my head, in the cell, in the prison, in the streets, in the whol…"

"How can I, Nawal El Saadawi, have an identity if my history is effaced? If my female ancestors are forgotten, buried …"