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

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.

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.

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

a great reason why a gloomy history may repeat itself is that we may have neglected what history did. When we neglect what history did, history visits us in the same cloth

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.

If you work hard, it will pay off in the end.

Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

The absence of him is everywhere I look.