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“The driving in Riyadh was deadly. Turbocharged testosterone without creative or sexual outlet translated into deadly acceleration.”

Men Danger Driving

Book:In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

Source: In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

“I was slowly becoming aware that chauvinism and sexism was just as marked among many of the Western attendings as it was amongst many of the Saudi and other Arab physicians, as though the climate of the workplace promoted an infectious transmission of male supremacy.”

Sexism Chauvinism Male Supremacy

Book:In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

Source: In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

“The men were not watering the grass; they were spraying it an emerald green. This was Ireland in an atomizer. The workers were coloring the dead, hurrying to finish before the Crown Prince's gaze would zoom by, perhaps peering through the bullet-proofed, tinted, heavily-armored glass of his German car. So much about the Kingdom concerned outward appearances. Veneer was as important as substance, perhaps more so.”

Saudi Arabia Veneer Outward Appearances

Book:In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

Source: In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

“The origins of the Mutawaeen therefore were never to be an anti-Western mine-sweeping tool, rather a means of policing the state for the security of the precarious monarchy that had conquered it.”

Monarchy State Policing

Book:In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

Source: In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom