Quotes About Freedom

Throughout her life, Henriette Wyeth has to decide: Love or work. Fidelity or freedom. Beauty or snark. East or west. Her father's daughter or her husband's wife. Her children's mother or her artist's heart—her palette or her paint, her feathers or her shells.

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

Reasonable people can disagree... and it makes them no less American.

No to marriage proposals, in which the concept of "forever," as Florence Nightingale famously said, slid into "never." As in never being wholly oneself; never being permitted to make up one's own mind; never to be able to move about freely.

I heard she married some hunter, well, they all marry hunters, so did I, ha! You're just as foolish I expect, young girls are, some lad catches your eye and there's your whole life gone, snap, a lap full of babies and grandbabies and it's all over, you're an old woman knitting at the hearth and that's it, that's it!' I could not wait to get out of there. She shrank my whole life to the size of a poppy seed, and ate it.

Writing, like drugs and recreational sex, becomes an activity associated with youth.

Whatever police the world may prescribe to rule the soul, I refuse to obey them.

Join me in validating masturbation as a primary form of sexual expression.

We need to speak out against all the religious bigots who demand that the entire population have monogamous marital sex for procreation only. We also need to confront the anti-porn feminists who are intent on preserving their romantic illusions by demanding that their lovers and all the rest of mankind be monogamous, including no more beating off with Playboy and Penthouse.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity, she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves.

Why should women accept this picture of a half-life, instead of a share in the whole of human destiny?

and not in my poo corner),

I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

The world was hers for the reading.

The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others. Our ongoing examination of who we are in our full humanity, embracing all of our identities, create the possibility of building alliances that may ultimately free us all.

There were undoubtedly worse things than being an unmarried woman in charge of her own life, free to come and go as she pleased, free to explore pleasure.

Pirate thoughts.

Sheriff, I'm wanted everywhere—but not by the law.