Quotes About Freedom

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

I am my own woman.

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women.

Coolest f-word ever deserves a fu..ing shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect for those who fought for this. I mean, look around, we have this.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.