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Quotes About Liberation

find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.
~ Eve Ensler
Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.
~ Eve Merriam
Most of my day is spent dealing with pathetic people of confused nationality seeking to escape the horrors of liberation.
~ Evelyn Waugh
They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you.
~ Fannie Flagg
Si la liberación no está dentro de mí, no está, para mi, en ninguna parte.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Renunciation is liberation. Not wanting is power.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Pertencer - eis a banalidade. Credo, ideal, mulher ou profissão - tudo isso é a cela e as algemas. Ser é estar livre.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Nascer liberto é a maior grandeza do homem
~ Fernando Pessoa
Dicen los ocultistas, o algunos de ellos, que hay momentos supremos del alma en que ésta recuerda, con la emoción o con parte de la memoria, un momento, o un aspecto, o una sombra de una encarnación anterior. Y entonces, como regresa a un tiempo que está más cerca que su presente del origen y del comienzo de las cosas, siente, en cierto modo, una infancia y una liberación.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Fly, bird, fly away; teach me to disappear! from The Keeper of the Sheep
~ Fernando Pessoa
Art consists in making others feel what we feel, in freeing them from themselves, by offering them our own personality as a liberation.
~ Fernando Pessoa
La renuncia es la liberación. No querer es poder.
~ Fernando Pessoa
free me from religion because it is gentle and from unbelief because it is strong.
~ Fernando Pessoa
There were many factors at work, but the proximate cause was undoubtedly the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. In part, the new English nationalism is thus another example of the dominant power mimicking the gestures of small-nation 'liberation' movements – the English were reacting to and mirroring the emergence of a potent and effective Scottish nationalism.
~ Fintan O'Toole
Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.
~ John Mayer
I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality.
~ Sasha Grey
Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation.
~ Peter Hedges
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
~ Hanna Rosin
I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.
~ Lydia Lunch
While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.
~ Marianne Williamson
Feminism should be about liberating women, all women, even Republican women, to be their true selves.
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy
I separated ways from the American feminist movement when they became anti-sexual. I believe embracing sexuality is a part of what it means to be free.
~ Hugh Hefner
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
~ Jeanette Winterson
We are revolutionary anti-imperialist resistance fighters.
~ Susan Rosenberg