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“"They said, 'You are a savage and dangerous woman.' I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous."”
Source: Woman at Point Zero (Imra'a 'inda nuqtat al-sifr, 1975), trans. Sherif Hetata (London: Zed Books, 1983)
Context The words belong to Firdaus, a woman awaiting execution in a Cairo prison, whom the author based on a prisoner she met while researching women's mental health in the early 1970s.
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