"We may safely assert that the knowledge that men can acquire of women…is wretchedly imperfect and superficial and will always be so until women themselves have told all that they have to tell."

–John Stuart Mill

* Give yourself permission to take care of your own needs; it will free you. –Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt, The Ethical Slut

* Reminding one another of the dream that each of us aspires to may be enough to set each other free. –Antoine de Saint-Exupery

* I baptized myself in change. And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been. –Bright Eyes

* He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave. –Klopstock

* Name them, and you end their power over you. –Susan Albers

* Freedom…means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it. –Natalie Goldberg

* Are you prepared to be free? …free from external oppression and internal fear. In everyone’s life…there is a season in which this question is addressed or withdrawn, one’s habits changed or calcified, one’s dreams realized or rejected. –Bob Shacochis

* And so I stand among you as one that offers a small message of hope, that first, there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence. –Thomas Merton