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Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning Baroque 'opera seria'; however, paradoxically his personal obsession to obtain complete artistic freedom generated disastrous side-effects that eventually impeded the progress of opera in London. ↗


— E.A. Bucchianeri


#classical-music #composers #covent-garden #handel #london

In comparison, young unmarried women in America were fortunate: They had a certain measure of sexual freedom. Eighteenth-century parents allowed their daughters to spend tie with suitors unsupervised, and courting couples openly engaged in "bundling," the practice of sleeping together without undressing, in the girls' homes. (Theoretically, that is, they were sleeping together without undressing: in fact, premarital pregnancy boomed during the period of 1750 to 1780, when bundling was nearly universal.) But by the turn of the century, in a complete reversal of previous beliefs about women's sexuality, the idea took hold that only men were carnal creatures; women were thought to be passionless and therefore morally superior. ↗


— Leora Tanenbaum


#history #morality #passion #sexuality #freedom

Even today, regardless of the quarrels women may pick in the cause of emancipation, the reality is that, in the present world order, it's the men who eventually grant emancipation, not we women. ... it's the masters who freed the slave of the world, people belonging to the masterclass who fought for the cause. The slaves didn't earn their freedom by wrangling or arguing. That's the way things are. It's the law of the world: the strong emancipate the weak from the bondage of the strong. So also, men alone can liberate women. The responsibility lies with them. ↗


— Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay


#the-final-question #freedom

By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters of Paris who seem to have inhaled since childhood the pungent breath of the boulevards laden with the nightly laughter of audiences leaving theaters, Madame de Burne's five years of bondage had nonetheless endowed her with a singular timidity which mingled oddly with her youthful mettle, a great fear of saying too much, of going to far, along with a fierce yearning for emancipation and a firm resolve never again to compromise her freedom. ↗


— Guy de Maupassant


#fear #fierce #freedom #independent #paris

Alamo has been a strong inspiration for nations striving for freedom all around the globe since 1836. Gvozdansko has not earned public reputation, but profoundly touched the heart of the bitter enemy Ferhat-paša alone in 1578. Croats have a duty and obligation to learn about Gvozdansko. ↗


— Vinko Vrbanic


#battle #ferhat-pasa #freedom #gvozdansko #ottoman

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything. ↗


— Brooke Bida


#anarcy #college #freedom #libertarian-ann #love

Nobody's truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin, a lie. It wasn't by accident that, in the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could attain it. ↗


— J. Matthew Nespoli


#freedom #lies #secrets #sins #star-spangled-banner

Vergnügen ist ein Lied der Freiheit, - Aber es ist keine Freiheit. ↗


— Kahlil Gibran


#party #freedom

Beliefs that are pushed, and force onto you, have the power to destroy your spirit and keep you captive in a reality of fear and pain ↗


— Martin Suarez


#beliefs #captive #fear #freedom #pain

Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life. ↗


— Jiddu Krishnamurti


#freedom #life #memory #movement #past






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