Manal al-Sharif Quotes

I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.

I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I want to go out and grab a smoothie with a friend who's a male, I'm not gonna let the paparazzi stop me from doing that and living my life and just being a normal person.

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.

When I spend a lot of time in New York, or somewhere when I don't have a car, I miss that mobility and freedom that you have when you have a car. You don't have to rely on anyone else.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please.

There is just so very much I can't do. I don't drive, for one.

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

I really do like being independent, and I don't want to have to rely on anyone else to cart me around if I break a bone.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

I am not an ux. I am a person and a woman. I am not appended to my husband. We are just married.

I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be.

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.

I'm an independent girl. I come from a family where we were given freedom.

I'm tired of relying on someone to drive me around. I just want my freedom.

Growing up, I dreamt of being economically independent because I always believed women should be so.

I believe that to get what you want as a woman is to use your brain, to have a job, and to not need someone or have to make decisions based on that.

Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own.

I think - and even with the Live Chin Up movement - it's about women doing things for themselves. Being empowered. Doing things that make you happy. I believe in that philosophy.

It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake

If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls who are growing up to go, 'I get to be a part of a comedy or an action film or a romantic comedy or a thriller or just a romance, without having to wind up with someone to complete us.' I complete me. I just got lucky that, after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me.

Now, I love men, but I don't need to always be talking about them.