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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.
-Nawal El Saadawi
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Yet Not For A Single Moment Did

Nawal El Saadawi
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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