Manal al-Sharif, about male guardianship on women in Saudi Arabia. As quoted in Saudi women 'still enslaved', says activist as driving ban ends (22 June 2018) by Heba Kanso, Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Imagine your son becomes your guardian, no matter my capabilities as a woman, I am still enslaved to somebody else. Freedom for me is to live with dignity, and if my dignity and freedom is controlled by a man, I will never be free.

— Manal al-Sharif on Walayah

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Imagine your son becomes your guardian, no matter my capabilities as a woman, I am still enslaved to somebody else. Freedom for me is to live with dignity, and if my dignity and freedom is controlled by a man, I will never be free." in the context of "Manal al-Sharif, about male guardianship on women in Saudi Arabia. As quoted in Saudi women 'still enslaved', says activist as driving ban ends (22 June 2018) by Heba Kanso, Thomson Reuters Foundation." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Manal al-Sharif

About Manal al-Sharif

Manal al-Sharif (Arabic: منال الشريف; born 25 April 1979) is a Saudi Arabian women's rights activist and computer scientist.