“Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future” — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
In May 2011, I drove a car in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, to protest the kingdom's ban on women driving. — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
In Saudi Arabia, they always tell us we are queens. We are pistachios. You know the nut? Like something that is protected.… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
The bicycle freed 19th-century women from their homes and from their dependence on men. I hope that in Saudi Arabia, the car… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
I almost got kidnapped trying to find a taxi in the street. In Saudi Arabia, it's not normal for a woman to… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
For us, driving is not what we are looking for, but being in the driver's seat of our only destiny. That means… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“So you’re the infamous Manal al-Sharif,” he said, eyeing me from behind his desk. “Aren’t you ashamed of what you did?” “Is… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“I had to smuggle an early Nokia camera cell phone into the country from Bahrain in 2004. There was a large black… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“She took my papers, the papers that had followed me from the Khobar police station to jail, and pointed at a place… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“I knew that I wouldn’t be able to apply for the ID card without his signature, but I went to the registry… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“When we’d finished, I asked the division planner if he had left out anyone in the division. “No, Manal,” he told me.… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“The axiomatic thing about Saudi society is that while there are a seemingly infinite number of rules, it is also possible for… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“Extremism frequently turns its champions into angry people, driven by conflicting desires. At first, I pitied my less enlightened parents and siblings.… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“I had to smuggle an early Nokia camera cell phone into the country from Bahrain in 2004. There was a large black market for… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
I love my sons, I love my husband, and I love my country. But in kingdoms of men, there are few - if any… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies? — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
I realised it is impossible to live with the rules they give Saudi women. Just impossible. You trying to do everything by the book,… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future” — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
For us, driving is not what we are looking for, but being in the driver's seat of our only destiny. That means ending guardianship… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
The Saudi ideal of a woman is a religious mother who rarely ventures out: She shouldn't work with men, she should be completely covered,… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
Women's rights are nothing but a part of the bigger picture, which is human rights. Women are trusted with the lives of their kids,… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
