#fr

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #identity

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ↗

— George Orwell

#ignorance #inspirational #war #freedom

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#literature #philosophy #freedom

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#self #freedom

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. ↗

— Bob Marley

#liberty #life #revolution #freedom

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#freedom

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

#escape #freedom #intoxication #reality #freedom

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#freedom

I'm single because I was born that way. ↗

— Mae West

#choice #dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ↗

— William Faulkner

#freedom