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Quotes About Freedom

We seem to be always on cusps. Women come out of the burkah, the niqab, purdah, the closet, then go back in again. Of course, what we need do is to value the happy freedom of all beings.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.
~ James Larkin
When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.
~ Amy Dickinson
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
~ Adela Rogers St. Johns
If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
~ Agnes Macphail
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
~ Helen Rowland
It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
~ Germaine Greer
And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.
~ Ahmed Chalabi
Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.
~ Tina Fey
I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.
~ Blythe Danner
The women all want to dance. I dance all night every night.
~ Rudolf Wanderone
The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.
~ Sonia Faleiro
God bless that women are free in America. We can say what we want, and I do think women will heal the world.
~ Reese Witherspoon
I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
~ E.M. Forster
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
~ Nancy Pelosi
Wild women don't get the blues.
~ Ida Cox
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
~ Susan B. Anthony
The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.
~ Phyllis Rose
I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'
~ Ronald Reagan