Women To Drive 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.

~ Manal Al-Sharif

It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use separate entrances for universities, banks, restaurants, and mosques; that divides restaurants with partitions so that unrelated males and females cannot sit together; that same society expects you to get into a car with a man who is not your relative, with a man who is a complete stranger, by yourself and have him take you somewhere inside a locked car, alone.

~ Manal Al-Sharif

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

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

~ Manal Al-Sharif

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