Quotes by : Manal Al-Sharif

She took my papers, the papers that had followed me from the Khobar police station to jail, and pointed....

How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she....

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

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....

Freedom is to live with dignity

This is what happens when the state intervenes in a person’s private life; it creates two separate....

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.