“Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested...” — Manal al-Sharif Quote

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

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.

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

Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that.

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

I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.

There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.

I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.

When I was growing up, you could get arrested for skateboarding, and now it's going to be in the Olympics.

Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a massive source of revenue.