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.

~ Manal Al-Sharif

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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 blank space, someone had written “driving while female.

~ Manal Al-Sharif

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

~ Manal Al-Sharif

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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.

~ Manal Al-Sharif

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