Quotes About Freedom

You have my permission to be completely free." She wondered if he said that to every woman he brought on board. "I don't need your permission to be free.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.

Expectations. They ruled my life. -Ch.14

All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man's sword.

luxury means little when there's no real freedom in the world

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact.

We sat there smiling at each other, shimmied to a standstill, thinking about all the boys that had wanted us that day, and how none of them had got us, not for a minute; how we'd let them pay for drinks and candyfloss and then run away laughing, their cries of 'Slags!' and 'Bitches' ringing in our ears like respect rather than derision.

Oh the seduction of far horizons and empty landscapes. For all the comfort and necessity of busy, ordered lives, the spirit remains a nomad.

I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.

Calvin was "the author of religious freedom" in the sense he understood the limitations placed on the role and authority of the state by the Bible. Religious freedom is not a freedom possessed by individuals, it is the freedom of religious institutions from the influence of the civil government. In other words it is sphere sovereignty.

He's practicing his Constitutional right to be a jackass.

Swish, I swing from tree to tree. My feet are like hands - I'm a chimpanzee!

Love had to be given freely. No conditions.

Marriage could be a partnership, not a life sentence where the woman's identify is ripped away the first day.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.

Just because you're playing without the rules doesn't mean they don't exist.

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It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.

On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.

My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth.