“The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a khali is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.”

On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.

Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society – the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense – adapting one-self to circumstances – and a sense of humor.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.