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Quotes About Restriction

Feminist consciousness can be thought of as consciousness of the violence and power concealed under the languages of civility, happiness, and love, rather than simply or only consciousness of gender as a site of restriction of possibility. You can venture into the secret places of pain by recalling something. You can cause unhappiness by noticing something. And if you can cause unhappiness by noticing something, you realize that the world you are in is not the world you thought you were in.
~ Sara Ahmed
All the desks in this room are bolted down, Sutton. Just so you know." Uh, okay.
~ Sara Shepard
We had laid down the law : no chocolate, no sex.
~ Sara Sheridan
Because there wasn't enough time to play 54
~ Grant Fuhr
The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.
~ Angela Merkel
The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.
~ Amanda Schull
It's quite an unfair thought that Microsoft are trying to control our gaming, they're trying to force us to be online all the time. [People] didn't really think that through.
~ Peter Molyneux
I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.
~ Ali Larter
I click to buy it and I'm furious to discover that it's not available in Ireland and they won't post it from abroad and the only place that sells it is Harrods and it's impossible for me to go to Harrods because it's like being trapped in an Escher painting.
~ Marian Keyes
Chouka era muy divertida. Por desgracia, cuando dos años más tarde se casó, su esposo le prohibió verme. Para él, yo era una persona amoral
~ Marjane Satrapi
En su casa encontraron discos, cintas de vídeo, un juego de cartas, un ajedrez, en fin, todo lo que estaba prohibido...
~ Marjane Satrapi
No loitering. Anyone caught loitering will be subject to the predicate is loitering.
~ Mark Alan Stamaty
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
~ Mark Twain
They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good.
~ Anthony Burgess
it won't be easy to prepare the vegetarian dishes." "Why?" asked Pilgrim. "Oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar," replied Sha Monk, "none of these can be found here.
~ Anthony C. Yu
No Catholic in England and Scotland was allowed to buy or inherit land. Exercising the function of a Catholic priest or running a Catholic school were both activities punishable by life imprisonment. Catholics could not receive commissions in the army or navy, or officially be soldiers or sailors. In the same way, Catholics who declared themselves as such could not attend universities, let alone take degrees
~ Antonia Fraser
This room is not well adapted as a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a portion of our carpet.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Damned planes. Too confining, too noisy—too fucking high in the air.
~ Shiloh Walker
The thought of a ring around my finger always made me feel tied tight, because rings had no openings to get out of.
~ Shirley Jackson
Cole hopes to go around the world one day. One of his favorite words is explorer. During the pandemic people weren't allowed to travel anywhere unless they absolutely had to, and even now it's not the way it was before. There aren't as many airplanes. There aren't as many buses or trains, and there aren't as many cars on the highways.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Das schimmste aber, wenn man ein Gefängnis aus unsichtbaren Mauern bewohnt, ist, dass man sich der Schranken nicht bewusst wird, die den Horizont versperren.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Prohibition had turned drinking from an agreeable, not very important accompaniment to gossip into a craze.
~ Sinclair Lewis
You won't let me buy any clothes. Now you won't let me buy a road map, either! I need to spend some money or I'm going to go crazy!
~ Sophie Kinsella
Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?
~ Sophie Kinsella