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Quotes About Freedom

Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.
~ David Deida
Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.
~ Miuccia Prada
A succulent wild woman is one of any age who feels free to fully express herself in every dimension of her life.
~ Sark
I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.
~ Inez Milholland
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .
~ Amy Johnson
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
~ Mae West
A society can never be free without women's liberation
~ Abdullah Ocalan
Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
~ Shonda Rhimes
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
~ Betty Friedan
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
~ Melinda Gates
The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.
~ Amelia Bloomer
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
~ Alice Neel
The air is the only place free from prejudices.
~ Bessie Coleman
Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.
~ Phyllis Diller
Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.
~ Ruhollah Khomeini
Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw
~ Candace Bushnell
Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
~ Kathy Acker
Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
~ Tony Campolo
Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.
~ June Jordan
I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.
~ Angelina Grimke
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.
~ Phyllis McGinley
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.
~ Mahnaz Afkhami