“The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.”

“Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.”

“Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.”

“Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.”

“Love should never mean having to live in fear.”

“The power of love is that it sees all people.”

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”

“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 saddest feeling is knowing you deserve freedom and still feeling caged.”

“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 ...”

“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 ...”

“Social conservatives seem to see a bigger threat to marriage from committed gay couples who want in on it than from straight ones who opt out of it.”

“the church should just stay out of people's pants.”

“If our relationships are not all about sex, then we must not make homosexuality a matter of concern.”