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Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'

Nawal El Saadawi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: egyptian
Birth: October 27, 1931

Topics

Life Age I Am New York Proud Face

I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s.

Joe R. Lansdale

Best America Born Everything Up

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

Joanna Lumley

Great Birds World Chance Trees You

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

Jessye Norman

Life Friendship Support Reading Us

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

John C. Maxwell

Person Contribution Noble Something

Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.

Anna Chlumsky

Brother Big Deal Like Big Deal

It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

Stephen LaBerge

Health Medical Research Looking

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

Stella Young

You Adapt Living Disability Works

I think the best actors in the world are here in New York City. And this city is just so vibrant the energy is just phenomenal. Great crews here. All the technicians, all the artists that work in this industry. I've just been very happy with the body that we've been able to do, especially those films we shot here in New York City.

Spike Lee

Work Great Best New York Happy City

I think it's a time to be sad about what's been done to the United States Senate, the greatest deliberative body in the world.

Mitch McConnell

Sad Time World Think Body Done

You've got to be really careful about what you say and do anywhere you are. I actually had a dream about being in parking garage and having somebody in front of me taking too long to get their change and honking the horn and then yelling back, and getting out and yelling at each other and then seeing it on YouTube the next day.

Mitt Romney

Change Day Me Long You Seeing

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Lucille Ball

Children Together Think Grow Scared

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Joyce Appleby

Worth Well-Being Depend Remembering