Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Paris is a city that liberates you as a woman from all your sins that you think you are guilty of; it washes away all of that, and you are free.

And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

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.

O freedom, first delight of human kind!

To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.

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

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

Freedom from something is not freedom.

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.

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

My mother raised me, and then freed me.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.