Quotes by Manal Al-Sharif

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“I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorced in my absence, just as I had been married.”
— Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
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“My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them.”
— Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
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“Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view. I began to question everything.”
— Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
extremism islam questioning radical-islam

“It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use separate entrances for universities, banks, restaurants, and mosques; that divides r...”
— Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
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“She took my papers, the papers that had followed me from the Khobar police station to jail, and pointed at a place where I was supposed to sign. On the paper there was a line for charges. In the bl...”
— Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
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“How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.”
— Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
daring-to-drive driving equality inequality

“We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us.”
— Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
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