Quotes About Freedom

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

The most out-there thing I'm saying is, 'Don't have babies. Don't get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.

On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.