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“I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.”

People Wish Feet Rivers Threat Bounds My Favorite Knees Thrown Threatened Cement

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It's the music a man's spirit sings to his heart, when the earth's far away and there isn't any more fear. It's the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.”

“When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.”

Ifs Stories Girl Hurt Wife Feet Dangerous Grew Grew Up Adults Independence Slave Bounds China Rage Chinese Heroines

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.”

Years Firsts Long Two Bigs Mother White Pieces Feet Stones Twenties Bounds Rounds China Wounds Crush Grandmother Two Years Sole Inward Toes My Grandmother Arches Bending Two Year Olds

Author:Jung Chang

“Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.”

Thinking Moments Hands Evil Feet Bird Bounds Good And Evil Void Hands And Feet

Author:Reginald Horace Blyth

“Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?”

Mean Hands Lying Enemy Feet Revolution Bounds Resistance Acquire Hug Phantoms American Revolution Hands And Feet American Freedom

Author:Patrick Henry

“Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.”

Men Hands Causes Feet Effects Bounds Endless Chains Hands And Feet

Author:Ramakrishna