“Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she… — 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
“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
“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 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
