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"Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him, I wrote, with more confidence. It can't be done. More important -- don't let him try to change you. He can't do it either, but men always try."
"You're nobody's rainbow. You're nobody's princess. You're nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you."
"My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it."
"Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly."
"I can't be my own person, if i constantly require someone else to hold me together."
"In that instance, my body had decided that this baby was not to be and had ended it. This time, it is my mind that has decided that this baby was not to be. I don't believe one's decision is more valid than the other. They both know me. They are both equally capable of deciding what is right."
"It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one."
"As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society."
Explore more quotes by Naguib Mahfouz
"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."
"I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party."
"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."
"It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat."
"As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak."
"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."
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