Quotes About Freedom

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

Women are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

Women are natural anarchists...

Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.

When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.