The Trilogy Composed Of Politics, Religion And

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.

You Cannot Have Dignity Or Social Justice Or Freedom Without Women.

I've Lived Here [in Egypt] Among Christians And Muslims, And We Never Had A Conflict. Now You Have A Conflict Between Christians And Muslims And Baha'is And Sunni And Shia. The Salafists Are Trying To Abort The Revolution And Make It Religious, Though The Revolution Started Secular.

All The Men I Did Get To Know, Every Single Man Of Them, Has Filled Me With But One Desire: To Lift My Hand And Bring It Smashing Down On His Face.