freedom
After school we were on our own, we had our friends, we went out on the cliffs with my dog, and we were free.
On how she spent time as a child, “Jane Goodall, Illustrated,” The New York Times, May 13, 2011.
You see, if you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what to do, kid… Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty, freedom is the most expensive.
“Hunting Birds of Paradise,” by Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, April 5, 2011.
There is a way of living which makes for greater airiness, space, ease, freedom. It is like an airplane’s rise above the storms. It is a way of looking at obstacles as something to overcome; of looking at what defeats us as a monster created by ourselves, within ourselves, by our fears, and therefore dissolvable and transformable.
The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol. 4 1944–1947) (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), 148.