59 Quotes by Manal al-Sharif

My mother gave birth to me on the floor of our apartment in Mecca with only my toddler sister to help her because my father was at work and no male guardian was available to take her to a hospital.

We should not label people who speak up, because it should not be the exception - it should be the norm. When you see something wrong, you speak up.

Women's rights are nothing but a part of the bigger picture, which is human rights. Women are trusted with the lives of their kids, even serve as teachers and doctors, but they aren't trusted with their own lives.

I'm a normal woman, a normal person, and I just want to drive.

For me, driving - or the right to drive - is not only about moving from A to B; it's a way to emancipate women. It gives them so much liberty. It makes them independent.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

I measure the impact I make by how harsh the attacks are. The harsher the attacks, the better I am doing.

That is life for a Saudi woman: wherever we go, whatever we achieve, we are the property of a man.

I realised it is impossible to live with the rules they give Saudi women. Just impossible. You trying to do everything by the book, but you can never stay pure.