Freedom Quote by Virginia Woolf

“I am not very sociable and am always glad to return to solitude and the freedom that goes with solitude. This desire for freedom…

— Aldous Huxley

“Nevertheless, we cannot escape the suspicion that individuality might be inhibited by marriage, and we wonder whether people in open relationships might not really…

— Daniel Bullen

“No one had ever advocated her independence before. The entire success of her marriage, her whole career as a woman, depended largely upon her…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“A man with an affectionate disposition, who finds a wife to concur with his fundamental idea of life, easily comes to persuade himself that…

— George Eliot

“A man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body to work for it alone, but he lives also for all men…

— Martin Luther

“...but he felt the relief of being alone as well...the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself…

— Frederick Buechner

“When one experiences a profound setback in the course of an enviable life, one has a variety of options. Spurred by shame, one may…

— Amor Towles

“The strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged…

— Thomas Paine

“the wife who could be contented with but one half of her husband’s affections, had never deserved to engage the slightest share of them.”

— Walter Scott

“Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with…

— Paul Hoffman

“I performed the part of an odd, quiet woman, and performed it to everyone's satisfaction. When others slept, I was awake; when they woke,…

— Margaret Cezair-Thompson