24 Quotes About Restrictions

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

Our wings were clipped, our restrictions were made, our boundaries were tested but now we are free, aren’t we?We look above in the sky at the birds and hope to be free. But the birds make their nests in the trees high above, to protect themselves from predators. Free birds must keep looking over their shoulders the same way all of us have to

the given language is power because it compels me to use already formulated stereotypes, including words themselves, and that it is structured so fatally that, slaves inside it, we cannot free ourselves outside it, because outside the given language there is nothing. How can we escape what Barthes calls, Sartre-like, this huis clos? By cheating. You can cheat the given language. This dishonest and healthy and liberating trick is called literature.

In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating.

That we may accept a limitation on our actions but never, under no circumstances, must we accept restriction on our thinking.

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.

I work hard, and I do good, and I’m going to enjoy myself. I’m not going to let you restrict me.

Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.