Freedom Quote by Joseph Brassey

“ Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn…

— Mary Balogh

“She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother in his…

— Frederick Douglass

“About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.”

— Christina Stead

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“She was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved.”

— Edith Wharton

“She had lost her innocent vision of justice early in her career, and had come to understand that the laws had not been created…

— Paulo Coelho

“All these years, her sole objective had been to keep still and hope no one would ever know. She had been a mistress of…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

“Her punishment was to be made to feel like a fool. She had been given her opportunity to participate in civilization, and she had…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement, and double-dealings…

— Louise Erdrich

“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent…

— Virginia Woolf

“I have written this because it may have escaped the notice of many who have admired her [Marie Tempest] brilliant performances that they are…

— W. Somerset Maugham