Manal al-Sharif Quotes

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Our ancestors saw fit that females, by reason of levity of disposition, shall remain in guardianship, even when they have attained their majority

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

Women are a colonized people.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

Forever behind a woman is the mediaeval English common law which places upon her the stigma of inferiority and bondage

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

I believe the decree should be repealed. It is extremely humiliating for women to be treated as criminals. The decree only gives men more legal weapons to use against women in case of marital problems.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

A woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression.

Women may not go out of their homes at night Unveiled women may not follow a funeral nor may they tear their clothes