Manal Al-Sharif, Daring To Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening Quotes
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 driving a car something shameful?” I answered back.
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.
My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them.
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.
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.