Quotes About Freedom

I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.

Words are like wild birds - they will come when they wish, not when they are bidden.

It simply fell from him, like a heavy overcoat he'd shrugged off, no longer needing its warmth or bulk to protect him.

For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.

You love the life you've lived, you're an American girl. You believe you have chosen it.

If some men supposed themselves free it was only because they did not understand that they were imprisoned—bars could be made of any shadowy substance, any dreamy loss of light.

You keep asking me that," she said sharply. "No. I don't care to notify anyone. I can't bear a crowd of relatives around me. I threw away that damned corset in a trash can. I won't return to that." There

Corset,' Mrs. Erskine? I don't understand." Because she was trussed up in one herself, she couldn't comprehend how Ariah had escaped hers.

Fascinating to Hannah, who has constructed her life as a means of exploiting her own passivity, to be forced to see how free she is: how alert, excited, aroused and aware and in a state of anticipation she really is, and not "fated.

I told you, Clara. I don't stay in one place long. And nobody comes with me. I don't marry none if them either. Erase me from your head because you're just not the one kid. Not just you're young which you are, but what I want is a voice. A say a woman talks to me, says things to me I don't know and am astonished to hear and I'll know her as soon as I hear her.

If you want a life. Different from your parents.

I told you Clara, I don't stay in one place long. And nobody comes with me. I don't marry none of them either. Erase me from your head because you're just not the one kid. Not just that you're young, which you are, but what I want is a voice. A way a woman talks to me, says things to me I don't know and am astonished to hear and I'll know her as soon as I hear her.

Live like it's your life.

They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you seven years for?' 'Being Gulley Jimson,' I said, 'and getting away with it.

It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster. Adele, Henry's Mother

Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.

The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.

When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.

Our past may explain why we're suffering, but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

The pathway to freedom begins when we face the problem without making excuses for it.

Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others or position in life will keep us permanently secure. The outside approval we seek becomes an addiction. We work to get approval and it feels good for a short while; then we find that we need more and more. True freedom never comes until we fully realize that we don't need to struggle to get from others what God freely gives us: love, acceptance, approval, security, worth, and value.

Lord, I need to see You and hear Your voice over and above the storms in my life. Help me to break free of anything that is holding me back from doing

You may have heard the saying, "Refusing to forgive is like drinking poison and hoping it kills the other person.

Knowing who we are in Christ sets us free from the need to impress others.