Nawal El Saadawi Quotes About Memoir
-
During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.
→ -
The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor]. All this. They left only some very, very minute parts. And also the political, the political element in it. So in a way, they cut pieces that to my mind were very important.
→ -
I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor ] is a mixture.
→ -
People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.
→
Related Authors
-
Simone de Beauvoir Writer -
Anwar Sadat Former President of Egypt -
Alaa Al Aswany Writer -
Naguib Mahfouz Film writer -
Mahmoud Darwish Poet -
Tsitsi Dangarembga Author -
Ahdaf Soueif Novelist -
Mariama Bâ Author -
Paul Bowles Composer -
Ahlam Mosteghanemi Writer -
Ahmed H. Zewail Scientist -
Terry McMillan Author -
Assia Djebar Novelist -
Ama Ata Aidoo Author -
Amina Mama Writer -
Tahar Ben Jelloun Writer -
Hanan al-Shaykh Author -
Fatema Mernissi Writer -
Ghada al-Samman Writer -
Tawfiq al-Hakim Writer