The Empress doesn’t get collared, or caged, or tortured.

“But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet…

— Maya Angelou

I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production…

— Alice Waters

“I was caged in our body and caged in his arms and, somehow, the former was the real prison.”

— Kat Zhang

Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle…

— Bruce Lee

The Gospel is like a caged lion; you don't have to defend it - just let it out of the cage.

— Charles Spurgeon

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of…

— Emma Goldman

My heart is in chains,though still beating. My spirit is caged, though still flaming. My mind has been captured, though is still telling me…

— Anonymous

“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties or whenever…

— Cheryl Strayed

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

— Tennessee Williams

“His gaze, blunted by the unnumbered procession of iron bars, uncounted as his softly padded steps. Smooth motion of blood and sinew turning in…

— Rilke Rainer Maria

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“She breathed slowly, searching for words. "You've set me free, and I can't be caged again.”

— Laura Bacchi

“The walls that caged me were not of this world, but were within my mind.”

— J.D. Stroube

“ Maya Angelou entered our lives at Virago in 1984, when we first published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings . "Entered our…

— Lennie Goodings

“Better make sure you’re not in my way when I go down.” My eyebrow lifted as I dipped my head to his level. “You…

— J.A. Belfield