Antonio Porchia Quotes

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

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.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’ s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’ s the most revolutionary insight of all.

I am myne owene woman, wel at ese

Self Emancipation

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.

Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

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.

Freedom is Letting Go.

It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...

If you want to be free be free

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.