Eve Ensler Quotes

You could not let your masters see you read; but now [after Emancipation] the colored people are fond of sending their children to school. Because the children in after years will be able to tell us ignorant ones how to do for ourselves.

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.

Education is freedom.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

Education liberates a woman.

Only the educated are free.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one — but no one at all — can tell you what to read and when and how.

Literacy has fueled most of the freedom movements in the last centuries.

Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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

If people are educated, they will know what they need.

Every time a bookseller hands a child a book, they are doing something that is the heart and soul of the American dream and the American ideal. It's a very sacred tradition.

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

I think literacy is everything.

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for you. And around it our own town... Freemanville!

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.