Quotes About Freedom

Ahead of us were many hours when no one in our families would look for us. When I think of the pleasure of being free, I think of the start of that day, of coming out of the tunnel and finding ourselves on a road that went straight as far as the eye could see, the road that, according to what Rino had told Lila, if you got to the end arrived at the sea. I felt joyfully open to the unknown.

Ich kam mir verrückt vor, leichtsinnig, aber ich war froh darüber. Ein Teil von mir war es leid, immer die Vernünftige zu spielen.

e io, malgrado tutti i miei cambiamenti, seguitavo a esserle subalterna. Di quella subalternità sentii che non sarei mai riuscita a liberarmi e questo mi sembrò insopportabile. Desiderai – e non riuscii a tenere a bada il desiderio – che il cardiologo si fosse sbagliato, che Armando avesse ragione, che lei fosse davvero malata e morisse.

The university doesn't free women but completes their repression.

Kendimi baÅŸkalar?n?n sözlerine uydurmaktan b?kt?m. Gerçekten ne olduÄŸumu ve hangi insan olabileceÄŸimi bilmeye ihtiyac?m var.

Lila had remained there, chained in a glaring way to that world, from which she imagined she had taken the best.

Should I restrain this shadow—my mother, all our female ancestors—or should I let her go?

Si a la mujer la sabes educar, bien. Si no la sabes educar, déjala correr, que te hará daño.

I concluded by saying that the world urgently needed to be changed, that there were too many tyrants who kept peoples enslaved. But it should be changed by peaceful means.

Amalia had the unpredictability of a splinter, I couldn't impose on her the prison of a single adjective.

As a girl I had liked obscene language, it gave me a sense of masculine freedom. Now I knew that obscenity could raise sparks of madness if it came from a mouth as controlled as mine. So I closed my eyes, I held my hands and squeezed my eyelids.

I wrote my book to free myself from it, not to be its prisoner.

I simply decided once and for all to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety and the urge to be a part of that circle of successful people, those who believe they have won who-knows-what

I hope that in the free time of old age, the wonder will return.

Czu?am si? jak postrzelona wariatka, ale podoba?o mi si? to. Jaka? cz??? mnie zm?czy?a si? odgrywaniem osoby rozs?dnej.

Amalia had the unpredictability of a splinter, I couldn't impose on her the prison of a single adjective.

Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.

Quisiera no tener memoria o convertirme en el piadoso polvo para escapar a la condena de mirarme.

La voluntad de separarse del Todo es el infierno.

I am adding the next chapters to my manual of disobedience.

Un régimen que se ensaña contra sus jóvenes, los mata, los encierra, les quita horas, días, años de su vida absolutamente irrecuperables, es un régimen débil y cobarde, que no puede subsistir. •Isabel Sperry de Barraza, maestra de primaria

Submission to something you didn't preach yourself is no good, I quote. Because Man must burst his ridiculous bonds, which consist of what is supposedly current reality with a prospect of a future reality of scarcely any greater value.

Indem die Frau nicht mehr gefällt, tut sie den ersten Schritt zu ihrer Freiwerdung. Ein Tritt gegen die Basis einer Pyramide aus stiller Gewalt...

What unknown abilities had filled this void? Was the world somehow brighter, more tangible, without the nagging interference of language? Was the absence of words actually a form of freedom? I've often tried to quiet that constant voice in my mind, to try to experience the world the way they might—but always the questions rush in faster than I can carve out a moment of true silence.