Erin O'Connor Quotes

For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.

People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

You cant be too careful on a skateboard.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

He’d protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

When I was doing stunts, I had lots of cuts on my body because of the chain. Even though everybody took care of me, I still got hurt.

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.

Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy, and more than anything else in the world, you wanna get off. And the only reason in the world you don’t get off is it’s still fifty blocks from where you’re going. Well, I can get off right now if I want to. Because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it’s still the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. Whenever I’ve had enough, it’s my stop. I’ve had enough.

There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. . .When it works, baby, you've got wings.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have.