Words worth keeping

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

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

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

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.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.