"I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope."

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When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under "Mental Health and Psychiatry." And of course, I see very few people, because I give much more time to writing. So I cannot say that I really stopped medicine, but I practice medicine - or psychiatry - in a very different way. In an artistic way!

— Nawal El Saadawi