Quotes About Emancipation

No one in chains could ever truly love you.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

In order to fly, you have to be free.

I had now tasted freedom, and I couldn't lie to myself about that.

had begun to occur to her that she wasn't trapped because of Logan; she'd been trapped in her own Indira self, like everyone was trapped in their own selves.

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.

It seems this time being a grass widow has been good for you; this temporary emancipation from my domination is allowing you to develop your own identity.

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.

Freedom is an illusion. But, liberty from manumission is attainable.

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.

There's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.

The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul.

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.

She would come out of the other side of her separation from Michael cleansed of the shittiness of men and of the ways in which she behaved when she was around them.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

about trying to escape the past. It's like a dog on a tether. No matter how much he runs, he just can't get away.

And in this sleek silver needle, Percey Clay felt herself flying into the heart of the sky, leaving behind the cumbersome, the heavy, the painful. Leaving behind Ed's death and Brit's, leaving behind even that terrible man, the devil, the Coffin Dancer. All of the hurt, all of the uncertainty, all of the ugliness were trapped far below her, and she was free.

It's just that I was released from prison today.

Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated city, and felt cheated by her ability to feel happy by everybody else.

Upon reflection, Henry found it difficult to disagree with Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune and frequent critic of the Lincoln administration, when he complained that the president had emancipated slaves where the Union could not free them and had kept them enslaved in places where the Union did enjoy the power to give them liberty.

Other couples are living separately ever after