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“But when I was a prostitute I protected myself, fought back at every moment, was never off guard. To protect my deeper, inner self from men, I offered them only an outer shell. I kept my heart and soul, and let my body plat its role, its passive, inert, unfeeling role. I learnt to resist by being passive, to keep myself whole by offering nothing, to live by withdrawing to a world of my own. In other words, I was telling the man he could have my body, he could have a dead body, but he would never be able to make me react, or tremble, or feel either pleasure or pain. I made no effort, expended no energy, gave no affection, provided no thought. I was therefore never tired or exhausted.”

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Book:Woman at Point Zero
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“Tapi aku lebih beruntung daripada laki-laki lain. Sebagian lelaki meninggalkan dunia ini sambil tetap percaya bahwa mereka adalah satu-satunya lelaki di bumi ini. Apa katamu? Perempuan tahu akan hal ini sejak semula? Ya, sayangku. Perempuan lebih cerdik daripada laki-laki. Seorang perempuan selalu tahu bahwa ia bukanlah perempuan satu-satunya di bumi ini.”

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Book:موت معالي الوزير سابقاً
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“Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.”

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Book:The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition
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“Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.”

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Book:Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition
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“Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. 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 subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.”

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Author:Nawal El Saadawi
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