A review by aimawaymessage
Memoirs from the Women's Prison by Nawal El Saadawi

4.0

“Fearing servility, people become servile.”

“We will destroy this prison! We will not die without noise!”

“True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugated people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.”