Quotes About Emancipation

My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'

One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.

Then the congregation listened as the clock chimed the twelve bars of midnight. At the last one, Knibb shouted: 'The monster is dead! The negro is free! The church 'broke out into one loud and long-continued burst of exultation and joy,' that awoke Knibb's young son and rattled all the windows. 'Never did I hear such a sound,' Knibb wrote later.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be had in it.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be

forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be had in it.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.

Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly.

peculiarly interesting sect of gnostics is called the Ophites, or serpent worshippers. The demiurge (so they hold), on recognising the danger that might result from the emancipation of man

You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

But no sooner had I gotten behind the wheel than a feeling came over me that was like being caressed by a cosmic wind, reminding me of what travel at its best can do: I was set free.

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory

This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates.

i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that smile is dimmed with tears.

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.