Quotes About Confinement

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison

A bird cannot love freely when caged.

The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!

Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation.

I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

I felt very accomplished staying busy in prison.

He even assembled coops for poultry, not unaware of the irony that he was a prisoner building a prison for lesser creatures.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

And those who lay in their beds there felt that they were within a wall that the Abbess has built for them. Within all was light and warmth, and without was the darkness they would not exchange even for a relief from pain and from dying.

Prison is the school of the unlearned lesson.

Fear, like self-pity, is a prison of its own making.

I also have no problem if you want to find a cave and have someone roll a boulder in front of it.

Jail ain't for nobody.

Sometimes, we get numb to the fact that people get sent away. We don't see where they are; we say they are 'doing time,' and you really don't know what that is.

I was put in the Anda cell at the Arthur Road jail which is the most secluded cell. You have no contact with anyone and you don't even get newspapers. I was completely numb.

None of us here have spent more than 90 percent of our adult life in the cages where the animals are.

You remember how it feels, don't you? All that desire scorching you straight through. Feeling like you're penned up in a small-town cage, jailed by cornstalk bars. Knowing, just knowing, that you'll be stuck in that quiet little town forever if you don't take a chance.

Was it indeed true that she had spent her best years as a fairy-tale princess locked away in a tower—a confinement of her choosing, a confinement with many comforts, but one with barred windows and locked doors all the same?

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?