Carolina QuotesI get great pleasure from creativity and writing, especially novels. It gives me a lot of energy, and for me it is more pleasurable than sex or food or anything. And I am a happy person because of this pleasure.
Nawal El Saadawi Connected to the Carolinas
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- in The Guardian (2009)
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- 2009
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