Quotes About Freedom

The cast had to come off before she could attempt a sculpture of her prey.

I'd had a taste of living for myself, and I could not go back to living entirely for others again.

any tool can also be a weapon of oppression as easily as it can be an implement of construction.

Our patterns and stories, no matter how far back they go, can be surrendered and rewritten. We can walk away from them in any moment. Every choice can be change and every moment is a blank slate.

realized I was living in a misery of my own making. I was living in shackles I had put on myself. I was confined by walls I had built—walls I was continuing to build, choice by choice.

Our patterns and stories, no matter how far back they go, can be surrendered and rewritten. We can walk away from them in any moment. Every choice can be change and every moment is a blank slate. The way things have been does not have to be the way they continue to be.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

There is love in holding, and there is love in letting go.

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Until everythingwas rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!And I let the fish go.

You know, even grown-up people cannot do what they want most" "Then why grow up?

What is it exactly," she asked, "that they mean by freedom? What does it affect? What is it besides an excuse for war?

wilderness—wild and brutal and glorious—

She agreed with everything that was planned for her, and made her own arrangements later, for she had discovered that the easiest way through life was to set out obediently upon the appointed path and then slip away down a side turning.

No. I want to get out—outside. Out of this flat." "There's a full moon. Have you ever walked beside the Seine in the moonlight?" "No. Have you?" "Not with you. Let's go.

Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights.

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear—is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

The darkest prisons were those of the mind.

So whatever you desire to be delivered of—if you really want to be free—pray fervently and daily to Archangel Michael and he will deliver you. If you want to quit smoking or drinking or overeating, if you want to get your life in order so you can serve God better, just