Plastic Surgery Is A Postmodern Veil.

Moral Codes And Standards In Our Societies Very Rarely Apply To All People Equally. This Is The Most Damning Proof Of How Immoral Such Codes And Standards Really Are.

The Medical Profession [in Egypt] Is Also Very Commercial. Health Is Not Given To The Poor. You Know, If You Have Money, You Have Medical Care; If You Do Not, Then You Are In Trouble. I Was Not Ready At All To Build My Economic Security On The Diseases Of People, On Suffering, Especially Of Women And Children. So, In A Way, I Rebelled Against It.

Doubt Is The First Step Towards Knowledge, Not Faith.

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 Cannot Be Liberated As Women In A Society Built On Class Oppression Or Gender Oppression Or Religious Oppression.