Quotes About Liberation

As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the bowels of the subway, but instead of being afraid, she felt glad. She would make all her own decisions now, even if they were ruinous ones. It was the same pleasurable feeling as tearing a piece of paper into tiny, tiny pieces.

What would I become if I sttoped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong?

I feel light. I am unwinding. I am unfurling like a banner.

Revelry is inherently slippery; part of its munificence is an easing of boundaries.

In order to fly, you have to be free.

I had now tasted freedom, and I couldn't lie to myself about that.

But, as your saints teach and we have always known, attachment enslaves you. Only those free from it see the world as it really is and have power over themselves and all things.

She wouldn't have bothered to try to fix it. (her marriage) She would have let herself fall into something fresh and new and delicious.

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it Rumi

She felt as if she needed to run crazily across a huge expanse of grass, flinging her body about like a puppy let off its leash.

Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking. Grace

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it

Fuck it, maybe she'd even get her hair cut.

Historically, Hong argues, neoliberalism emerged as a response to the liberation movements of the post–World War II era: "A new neoliberal order arose based on selective protection and proliferation of minoritized life as the very mechanism for the brutal exacerbation of minoritized death."149 In other words, protection of some leads to (as opposed to prevents) the devaluation of others in a cruel but seemingly neutral zero-sum game.

contemporary mad activist Erick Fabris contends that the introduction, and enforcement, of psychiatric drugs acted as a form of literal (not figurative) chemical incarceration that enabled populations that were deemed dangerous to live outside of an institution. These forms of chemical incarceration do not signal the liberation of the mad but their increased surveillance by other means—what I have termed carceral sanism.

No problem, Goth Boy. First one's free.

To me, 'sexual freedom' means freedom from having to have sex.

It seems this time being a grass widow has been good for you; this temporary emancipation from my domination is allowing you to develop your own identity.

The challenge always is to demystify, to decolonize.

My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.

And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.

The liberation of adulthood as we'd conceived it from below was a pipe-dream; with oppressors deposed we became our own tyrants.

There's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.

He could see how this liberating condition could grow progressive. How in the face of an end game there was virtually no limit to what did not matter. Returned