Quotes by : Manal Al-Sharif

Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular,....

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

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

I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman.....

It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces....

I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court....

So you’re the infamous Manal al-Sharif,” he said, eyeing me from behind his desk. “Aren’t you....

The rain begins with a single drop

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

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