“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.”

“The rain begins with a single drop”

“Freedom is to live with dignity”

“This is what happens when the state intervenes in a persons private life; it creates two separate personas. It compels you either to lead two separate lives, or to violate whats imposed on youwhen ...”

“I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant being confronted with every possible kind ofobstacle and discrimination. It meant ...”

“How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she talks about with her colleagueson her coffee break, yet we dont judge a man if he doesnt grow hi...”

“How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.”

“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.”

“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...”

“Learn to drive?""Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.”

“There were some low moments out there on the road tonightabandonment and whats the point?but then I pulled in a radio station from Albuquerque playing historical rap and breakdance circa 1982. Kurt...”

“The people of God are the driving force of every nation”

“Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.”

“Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.”

“This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. ...”