Freedom Quote by Maria Montessori

“She had a very traditional Catholic upbringing and that didn't deter her. On the contrary it strengthened her determination to be true to herself,…

— Diane Ackerman

“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent, theoretic, and…

— George Eliot

“Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Unlike them, however, her path was not through daring deeds or the study of magic or the use of miraculous powers. She had been…

— William Joyce

“Whether she is seen as the benevolent Mother of All Living, or the Goddess of bloody battle, or the Death Goddess, or the prophetic…

— Monica Sjöö

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired,…

— Jeff Shinabarger

“She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.”

— Marge Piercy

“She believed because it was that faith alone that gave her own life any kind of meaning.”

— Chinua Achebe

“Things external to her may have their own weight and dimension: but within inside us she gives them such measures as she wills: death…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Just as faith teaches us that the sovereign felicity of the other life consists in the contemplation of the divine majesty alone, so even…

— René Descartes

“Belonging to people who loved her without question was everything that made this world worthwhile outside of her faith. And”

— Lisa Phillips

“She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.”

— Diana Athill