Libba Bray Quotes

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

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

Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I've been set free.

At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone.

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

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.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

I think that New York liberated me in the sense that I moved here when I was 18, so it was a fresh perspective on life. I had been living in L.A. my whole life and I had never lived anywhere else, so being away from family and really making a name for myself was huge for me.

It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown.

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

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

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

I'm spreading my wings at last.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

Education is freedom.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'

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

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

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.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.