Paul Dini Quotes

I'm spreading my wings at last.

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.

At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

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 went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.

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

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.

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.

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

I never put a lot of praise on myself because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself - when I divorced and took control of my life.

La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school.

Education is freedom.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

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

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.

People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

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

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

No one, and no mind, was ever emancipated by merely being left alone.