Quotes About Liberation

breaking out of their mass grave

and then (as if a lock had gone and the Spring had broken loose)

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

Now the real beginnings of the 'freedom' which we have discussed for many years--and a heady freedom it is, coming after so many years of reaching outward for it--to finally discover all I had to do was reach inward, and it was there waiting all the time for me

She has given me a way out.

For almost as long as she could remember Maerad had been imprisoned behind walls. She was a slave

This book is dedicated to all the women out there who no longer have the patience or desire to put up with any nonsense.

One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Modernity promised that all human beings would be treated equally. Women took that promise seriously and rebelled against the old order. Women, now liberated and with equal careers, nevertheless find they still desire to have children, but have no basis for claiming that men should assume a responsibility for them. So nature weighs more heavily on women. In the old order they were subordinated and dependent on men; in the new order they are isolated, needing men, but not able to count on them.

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so.

When I got to college, when I finally fled the suffocation that I'd built around myself—because, to my father's credit, he'd never asked me to captain our plagued family's ship—it all collapsed.

The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.

I'd leave, too, if I'd been held hostage against my ovaries for all that time. I'd have done more than just leave a few people unconscious behind me, too.

La libertad no se cuantificaba en metros cuadrados disponibles. La libertad consistía en estar por fin a merced de nosotros mismos

La parole émancipe.

La magia deforma la realidad en interés de otro, con el fin de provocar una duda liberadora; la trampa, en cambio, deforma la realidad en detrimento de otro, con el objetivo de robarle su dinero.

El espacio, suprema liberación. Si no fuera así, ¿qué sentido tendría que el mundo fuera tan grande? La lengua no engaña: largarse rima con salvarse. Si te estás muriendo, lárgate. Si estás sufriendo, muévete. No existe más ley que la del movimiento.

Platón califica el cuerpo de pantalla, de cárcel, y le doy cien veces la razón, salvo en el caso de las niñas. Si Platón hubiera sido niña durante un solo día, habría sabido que el cuerpo puede ser todo lo contrario: el instrumento de todas las libertades, el trampolín de los más deliciosos vértigos, la rayuela del alma, la píldora de las ideas, joyero de virtuosidad y de velocidad, única ventana del pobre cerebro.

Pojurila sam u krajolik. Oh, kako je divno tr?ati! Prostor osloba?a od svega. Nema te patnje koja se ne može odagnati rasipanjem sebe u svemiru. Zar bi svijet bez razloga bio tako velik? Jezik ima pravo: ute?i zna?i spasiti se. Ako umireš, kreni. Ako patiš, pokreni se. Kretanje je jedini zakon.

largarse rima con salvarse. Si te estás muriendo, lárgate. Si estás sufriendo, muévete. No existe más ley que la del movimiento.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.