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Quotes About Freedom

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
~ Florence Nightingale
What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things.
~ Frederick Lenz
Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.
~ Frederick Lenz
I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
~ Gail Collins
No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.
~ George Gissing
There are limits put on women, but why should there be?
~ Gwen Stefani
Any society that is silencing its women has no future.
~ Hafsat Abiola
Women need men like fish need bicycles.
~ Irina Dunn
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.
~ Jen Kirkman
I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.
~ John Donne
Women alone always order sole. It means something.
~ John Dos Passos
If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.
~ John F. Kennedy
According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.
~ John Norman
What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.
~ John Stuart Mill
As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.
~ Julia Child
Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)
~ Karen Joy Fowler
I believe every single one of us has a choice in life and that we can all choose to live out whatever our exceptional minds dream up.
~ Karni Liddell
Choices in life are not and should not be determined by our life circumstances.
~ Karni Liddell
For women especially, its important to be financially independent.
~ Karrine Steffans
Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.
~ Kathleen Turner