★★★★½
This book recounts Nawal El Saadawi's arrest and imprisonment for the crime of having an opinion in Anwar Sadat's Egypt. In it, El Saadawi explores the essence of democracy and free speech within the nitty gritty, day-to-day experience of life as a political prisoner. *Memoirs From a Women's Prison* took me to new places geographically and politically. And, it taught me how beauty can take root in bleak environments. Stirring and strong.
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“The most dangerous shackles are the invisible ones, because they deceive people into believing they are free.”