Deanna Raybourn Quotes

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

I live the life I want to lead.

We women are fools to do so much for the man we love. And we forget to stand for ourselves.

For me, growth and empowerment are about giving a woman a choice.

I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

You... were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around... Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wing and removing its ability to fly... A bird is not defined by being grounded but by his ability to fly. Remember this, humans are defined not by their limitations, but by the intentions I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image. Love is NOT the limitation; love is the flying. I AM love.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Women no longer need to be in a relationship. You can pay for your own life, you can have children on your own, basically do whatever you want on your own. So if you're going to create an addition to your life, it should be about love. That makes me happy.

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.