Manal Al-Sharif Quotes

It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use separate entrances for universities, banks, restaurants, and mosques; that divides restaurants with partitions so that unrelated males and females cannot sit together; that same society expects you to get into a car with a man who is not your relative, with a man who is a complete stranger, by yourself and have him take you somewhere inside a locked car, alone.

Manal Al-Sharif

She took my papers, the papers that had followed me from the Khobar police station to jail, and pointed at a place where I was supposed to sign. On the paper there was a line for charges. In the blank space, someone had written “driving while female.

Manal Al-Sharif

How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.

Manal Al-Sharif

We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us.

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Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future

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Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view. I began to question everything.

Manal Al-Sharif

My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them.

Manal Al-Sharif