Everything Quote by Mona Eltahawy

I was 15 when my family moved to Jidda from Britain in 1982. Living in Saudi Arabia was such a shock to my system…

— Mona Eltahawy

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

— Basmah bint Saud

In the Saudi system, women are considered inferior. No matter our age, we have male guardians. We must get permission from men to attend…

— Manal al-Sharif

As a woman in Saudi Arabia, you have one of two options. You either lose your mind - which at first happened to me…

— Mona Eltahawy

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be…

— James Buchan

In Saudi Arabia - recognized as one of the worst violators of women's rights - women outnumber men on university campuses and yet are…

— Mona Eltahawy

In Saudi society, women are extremely respected. I never had an issue with that at all.

— Lubna Olayan

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

“Women of all ages are in-fantilized by the Saudi system. A woman, no matter how old, has to be able to show a signed…

— Geraldine Brooks

“There was no law that explicitly banned women from driving in Saudi Arabia. There is none today—the Kingdom’s notorious female driving ban is a…

— Robert Lacey

As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13…

— Rula Jebreal