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Firdaus
Nawal El Saadawi is the author and secondary narrator who recounts the days before she meets Firdaus in prison and her reaction to Firdaus’s story. Saadawi is a psychiatrist, interviewing female inmates to study neurosis. Before she meets Firdaus, she feels the same sense of anticipation that she’s only known from romantic encounters. After Firdaus is executed and Saadawi leaves, she finds that she feels small and insignificant compared to Firdaus’s strength.
Nawal El Saadawi Quotes in Woman at Point Zero
The Woman at Point Zero quotes below are all either spoken by Nawal El Saadawi or refer to Nawal El Saadawi. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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It looked to me as though this woman who had killed a human being, and was shortly to be killed herself, was a much better person than I. Compared to her, I was nothing but a small insect crawling upon the land amidst millions of other insects.
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Nawal El Saadawi Quotes in Woman at Point Zero
The Woman at Point Zero quotes below are all either spoken by Nawal El Saadawi or refer to Nawal El Saadawi. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 1
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It looked to me as though this woman who had killed a human being, and was shortly to be killed herself, was a much better person than I. Compared to her, I was nothing but a small insect crawling upon the land amidst millions of other insects.
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