Manal al-Sharif

The rain begins with a single drop.

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

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

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.