Alison Bechdel Quotes

Anhamirak, abandon and freedom.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.

I experience true freedom when I accept, understand, and move on from the conditioning of the past.

It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

Sometimes it takes courage and experience to allow yourself to actually go into being someone that you're not, and it's the most liberating thing to let go. I do think that's why I love acting - it's being someone that you're not. And sometimes you're really scared of it, and then once you let yourself go there, it's the best thing ever.

If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.

It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet

Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!

I'm spreading my wings at last.

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

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.