Anne Sexton Quotes

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

No one, and no mind, was ever emancipated by merely being left alone.

I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me.

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.

Tell freedom I said hello.

Anhamirak, abandon and freedom.

Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.

The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.