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Manal al-Sharif Quotes
Saudi Arabian
-
Activist
April 25, 1979
All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
Manal al-Sharif
Drive
Country
Said
Why
Attack
Authority
Harass
Oppose
Anyone
Ask
Did
Rights
System
It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
Manal al-Sharif
Me
Long
Time
Long Time
Chains
Break
Inside
Took
The rain begins with a single drop.
Manal al-Sharif
Rain
Single
Begins
Drop
When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.
Manal al-Sharif
Women
Car
Drive
Action
Guts
Herself
Taboo
Afraid
Break
Now
She
Speak
Take
Up
We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
Manal al-Sharif
Woman
Stop
First
Until
License
Saudi
Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
Manal al-Sharif
Positive
Change
Women
Me
Arrested
Positive Change
Believe
Day
Different
May
Now
Since
Tell
Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that.
Manal al-Sharif
Women
Drive
Want
Taking
Actual
Steps
Towards
Denying women the right to drive has imposed huge costs on Saudi citizens.
Manal al-Sharif
Women
Drive
Right
Saudi
Costs
Denying
Imposed
Citizens
Huge
My message to the world is to surrender your ego: try not to think that you are not as fortunate as some people or inferior or not as good as someone else.
Manal al-Sharif
Good
You
World
People
Ego
Inferior
Surrender
Else
Fortunate
Message
Some
Some People
Someone
Think
Try
Your
Everything is possible; we just need to be hopeful and think of the world from a human perspective. The world is so small compared to the universe, so we shouldn't fight for petty things.
Manal al-Sharif
World
Fight
Universe
Perspective
Compared
Hopeful
Petty
Everything
Human
Just
Need
Possible
Small
Things
Think
For us, driving is not what we are looking for, but being in the driver's seat of our only destiny. That means ending guardianship in Saudi Arabia, which means recognizing women as full citizens.
Manal al-Sharif
Women
Looking
Destiny
Ending
Arabia
Driver
Recognizing
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Seat
Being
Citizens
Driving
Full
Means
Only
Our
Us
Which
I always say that countries that keep women in the backseat will always end up on the wrong side of history.
Manal al-Sharif
Women
History
Will
Always
Backseat
Wrong Side
Countries
End
Keep
Say
Side
Up
Wrong
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In May 2011, I drove a car in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, to protest the kingdom's ban on women driving.
Manal al-Sharif
Women
Car
May
City
Arabia
Ban
Drove
Kingdom
Protest
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Driving
The bicycle freed 19th-century women from their homes and from their dependence on men. I hope that in Saudi Arabia, the car will do the same.
Manal al-Sharif
Hope
Women
Car
Bicycle
Arabia
Dependence
Freed
Homes
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
I Hope That
Men
Same
Will
In the Saudi system, women are considered inferior. No matter our age, we have male guardians. We must get permission from men to attend school, to work, to marry, to travel overseas - even to have basic medical procedures.
Manal al-Sharif
Work
Women
Age
Medical
Attend
Guardians
Inferior
Marry
Overseas
Permission
Procedures
Saudi
Basic
Considered
Even
Get
Male
Matter
Men
Must
Our
School
System
Travel
Women Are
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.
Manal al-Sharif
Mother
Work
Me
Father
Apartment
Available
Birth
Floor
Guardian
Hospital
Mecca
Toddler
Because
Gave
Help
Her
Male
Only
Our
Sister
Take
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.
Manal al-Sharif
You
People
Who
Speak
Exception
Label
Norm
Because
See
Should
Something
Up
Wrong
When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.
Manal al-Sharif
You
Business
Corruption
Speak
Injustice
Shut
Shut Up
Just
None
Say
See
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.
Manal al-Sharif
Women
Nothing
Picture
Human
Bigger Picture
Doctors
Human Rights
Trusted
Bigger
Even
Kids
Lives
Own
Part
Rights
Serve
Teachers
Which
Women Are
I'm a normal woman, a normal person, and I just want to drive.
Manal al-Sharif
Drive
Woman
Person
Normal
Normal Person
Just
Want
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.
Manal al-Sharif
Women
Me
Drive
Way
Emancipate
Liberty
About
Driving
Gives
Independent
Makes
Moving
Much
Only
Right
Them
When I see something wrong, I speak up.
Manal al-Sharif
Speak
See
Wrong
Something
I See
Up
I measure the impact I make by how harsh the attacks are. The harsher the attacks, the better I am doing.
Manal al-Sharif
I Am
Better
Doing
Impact
Attacks
Harsh
Measure
Am
How
Make
That is life for a Saudi woman: wherever we go, whatever we achieve, we are the property of a man.
Manal al-Sharif
Life
Man
Woman
Go
Property
Saudi
Wherever
Achieve
Whatever
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.
Manal al-Sharif
Women
You
Never
Impossible
Pure
Realised
Saudi
Book
Everything
Give
Just
Live
Rules
Stay
Trying
My father's generation of Saudi men are more liberal than the men of my generation. But with women, it's the opposite.
Manal al-Sharif
Women
Father
Men
Generation
Liberal
My Generation
Saudi
More
Opposite
Than
The Saudi ideal of a woman is a religious mother who rarely ventures out: She shouldn't work with men, she should be completely covered, and she shouldn't go out alone to run errands.
Manal al-Sharif
Mother
Alone
Work
Men
Covered
Ideal
Rarely
Saudi
Ventures
Go
Out
Religious
Run
She
Should
Who
Woman
I'm just a human being who would not accept being wronged.
Manal al-Sharif
Who
Accept
Human
Being
Wronged
Human Being
Just
Would
I almost got kidnapped trying to find a taxi in the street. In Saudi Arabia, it's not normal for a woman to walk in the street alone, and I don't cover my face, so I am an open target.
Manal al-Sharif
Alone
Walk
Face
I Am
Arabia
Cover
Kidnapped
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Target
Taxi
Almost
Am
Find
Got
Normal
Open
Street
Trying
Woman
In Saudi Arabia, they always tell us we are queens. We are pistachios. You know the nut? Like something that is protected. So even if you have a very good education, restraints are put on women.
Manal al-Sharif
Education
Good
Women
You
Arabia
Good Education
Nut
Protected
Queens
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Always
Even
Know
Like
Put
Something
Tell
Us
Very
I went to a technology conference in Germany, and there were these beautiful, model-like women standing there in front of the products. I asked a question, and she had no clue what the product was. She had to call someone from the back to explain it to me. To me, that's using a woman as an object. To me, that's totally wrong.
Manal al-Sharif
Women
Beautiful
Me
Technology
Clue
Conference
Explain
Germany
No Clue
Object
Asked
Back
Call
Front
Had
Product
Products
Question
She
Someone
Standing
Totally
Using
Were
Woman
Wrong
I love my sons, I love my husband, and I love my country. But in kingdoms of men, there are few - if any - choices for women. Or the choices are such that there is no greater pain than having to choose.
Manal al-Sharif
Love
Women
Pain
Men
Kingdoms
Sons
Any
Choices
Choose
Country
Few
Greater
Having
Husband
I Love
Than
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