Everybody Has To Die, Firdaus. I Will

Doubt Is The First Step Towards Knowledge, Not Faith.

First Of All, I Hated The Medical Profession. Medical Education In Egypt Was Taken From The British, French, Colonial Educational System. And It's Very, Very Lacking - There Is No Sexology. I Never Read The Word Clitoris In Any Medical Book When I Was Educated.

I Am Becoming More Radical With Age. I Have Noticed That Writers, When They Are Old, Become Milder. But For Me It Is The Opposite. Age Makes Me More Angry.

Interviewer: What Would You Say To A Woman In This Country Who Assumes She Is No Longer Oppressed, Who Believes Women's Liberation Has Been Achieved? El Saadawi: Well I Would Think She Is Blind. Like Many People Who Are Blind To Gender Problems, To Class Problems, To International Problems. She's Blind To What's Happening To Her.

We Never Know The Reality Of Things: We See Only What We Are Aware Of. It Is Our Consciousness That Determines The Shape Of The World Around Us -- Its Size, Motion And Meaning.