Carolina QuotesI’m surrounded by young people, day and night. Thousands of them. The government is afraid of the young, and they won’t touch me because they know I have the power of the young people behind me.
Nawal El Saadawi Connected to the Carolinas
Source
On how writers like her are protected by the younger generation since the 2011 revolution in Egypt in “Nawal El Saadawi: ‘Do you feel you are liberated? I feel I am not’” in The Guardian (2015 Oct 11)
- work
- from interviews
- year
- 2011
Cite this record
“I’m surrounded by young people, day and night. Thousands of …” Nawal El Saadawi. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-55EDFDDC17. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/55edfddc17
More from Nawal El Saadawi
Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.
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 face.
All fundamentalists - whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim or otherwise - are partners in the attempt to breed division, strife, racism and sexism; they help international imperialism to maintain its control and to overcome popular resistance to policies that lead to war and increased exploitation. It is known that the Mafia of today in Italy and the USA and Canada has close connections with some international fundamentalist groups, some of which are Islamic. The economic resources of such groups are, like those of the Mafia, drawn from the sale of arms, trafficking in drugs, and speculation in foreign exchange; these activities