Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future

A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing.

Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies?

The rain begins with a single drop.

We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.

The rain begins with a single drop

Freedom is to live with dignity

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.

Physical pleasures are not associated with attachment-abhorrence

So never be embarrassed by mistakes, rather, be thankful for them, because they always present an opportunity for personal growth.

To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.

Vee scowled at him. She is famous for that scowl. It's a look that does everything but audibly hiss.

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

Happiness is a moral obligation

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.