"There is a proverb that says, â€˜Talk so that I may know who you are.â€™ But I say, â€˜Show me your eyes and I will know who you are."

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Source : Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi”, p.176, Zed Books Ltd.

Nawal El Saadawi

#Eye Quotes #May Quotes #Show Me Quotes

“I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.”
“My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always Out of the house! There was no watching television on weekends.”
“He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.”
“Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.”
“Caring for veterans shouldn't be a partisan issue. It should an American one.”
“He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses.”
“Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation...15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old.”
“What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.”

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