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Quotes About Freedom

Do not get glum when you are no longer understood, little book. Do not curse your fate. Do not reach up from readers' laps and punch the readers' noses. Rejoice, little book! For on that day, we will be free
~ Joanna Russ
You want the freedom to sleep around. I'm not willing to give you that. I want more. Sounds like we have a fundamental difference of opinion here, and I'm not going to try and change you. But I'll tell you one thing, Ruger- I deserve to be with someone who gives a shit about me, as a person. Someone who values me enough not to fuck other women. I'd rather be alone the rest of my life than settle for what you're offering. Consider yourself a hell of a booty call, but that's it. We clear?
~ Joanna Wylde
You're a pig," I whispered back. "You know that, right?" "So far bein' a pig works for me, babe," he said. "Gotta go now. Check out the college. Hit the clinic and get some pills. Don't call your brother. Cook something fuckin' great for dinner and don't wear any panties. That's all I ask.
~ Joanna Wylde
It took everything I had to bite back a little squee of excitement, because there's not a woman on earth who doesn't secretly want to ride off into the sunset with a bad man on a bike .
~ Joanna Wylde
Not like you have anything to lose," Em added, coming up beside us. "Find Buck, then we'll ditch this place. I'm ready for a three-way with Ben and Jerry
~ Joanna Wylde
Ninety-nine percent of men are okay with following the rules and doing what they're told. We're the other one percent, so we built our own world with our own rules.
~ Joanna Wylde
Men like us, we live to ride, and ride to live
~ Joanna Wylde
Fuckin' pussy thinks that maybe true love will conquer all, and then she'll climb onto his bike and they'll ride away into the sky on a rainbow while we all throw rose petals at them.
~ Joanna Wylde
Life is too short to let a man call the shots.
~ Joanna Wylde
I just want to get laid, though. Do you think any of the guys in your club are available? I don't want a boyfriend, just a friend with benefits. Someone I can fuck and then ditch, guilt-free, when it gets old.
~ Joanna Wylde
They had written it "for those who come after us to study, as an example of what it once cost to be in favor of liberty,
~ Joanne B. Freeman
There was something wonderful about a blank sheet of notepaper. The lines were there, just waiting to be filled, and the page could turn into anything from a grocery list to the opening of The Great American Novel. The possibilities were endless.
~ Joanne Fluke
I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice [...] and I never promised you peace or happiness. My help is so that you can be free to fight for all of those things. The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose garden world of perfection is a lie... and a bore, too!
~ Joanne Greenberg
I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.
~ Joanne Harris
I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.
~ Joanne Harris
Que se muera el olvido, que se escondan las llaves de los juzgados, que se acuerde Cupido de los maridos abandonados. Cuando llegue por fin mi mensaje a tus manos, en la gasolinera vieja esperaré; y tomaremos juntos al abordaje la carretera que te conté.
~ Joaquín Sabina
Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set— In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time's snowy tents In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind.
~ Joaquin Miller
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion
~ Job 3831 Bible
You're a girl. Someday you'll want to be a prisoner to someone other than yourself.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Pine Sap said once that he would rather die than see Tiger Lily tamed. I guess Tiger Lily felt the same way with Peter, because she stayed behind.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
It seemed, when all was said and done, that all souls were a little wild, in some way or another.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
I suspected that she was an inch away from running around with her shirt off too.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
~ Jodi Picoult