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One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

— Isabel Allende

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I'm not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that's why they identify with me.

— Rihanna

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

— Katy Perry

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

— Betty Ford

We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

— Angeles Mastretta

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.

— Anthony Minghella

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

— Gail Collins

✗Opposing Perspectives

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

— Jim Morrison

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

— Vita Sackville-West

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

— Nathalie Sarraute