20 quotes on Freedom by inspirational women
Here are some quote about freedom by women that inspire us.
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”― Coco Chanel
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”― Gloria Steinem
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”― Virginia Woolf
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”― Toni Morrison
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”― Toni Morrison
“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”― Anaïs Nin
“I'm single because I was born that way.”― Mae West
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”― Charlotte Brontë
“I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.”― Charlotte Brontë
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”― Mary Wollstonecraft
“We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.”― Joni Mitchell
“I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.”― Greta Garbo
“Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.”― Patti Smith
“Don't let the man bring you down.”― Maya Angelou
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”― Rosa Luxemburg
“Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”― Lucille Ball
Until we are all free, we are none of us free. ”― Emma Lazarus
“I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.”― Joyce Carol Oates
“Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.”― Margaret Thatcher
“Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.”― Susan Sontag