As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters of Paris who seem to have inhaled since childhood the pungent breath of the boulevards laden with the nightly laughter of audiences leaving theaters, Madame de Burne's five years of bondage had nonetheless endowed her with a singular timidity which mingled oddly with her youthful mettle, a great fear of saying too much, of going to far, along with a fierce yearning for emancipation and a firm resolve never again to compromise her freedom.

I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.

The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.

Emancipation of mind is the greatest liberty.