Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

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

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

I have achieved an inner freedom.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

Be free, and live life fully.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

Step out of your cage And onto the stage It's time to start Playing your part Freedom awaits Open the gates Open your mind Freedom's a state

I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.

I invented myself.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

I don't know what I'm going to end up doing, but its definitely in the right direction for freedom and truth.

I realized the world spins without me having to spin it.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.