Ms. Walker barely escaped herself.
She escapes herself, and the house, given half an opportunity — to collect stories for an oral history of the village, to sit on a town zoning board.
"On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself – on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.
On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself - on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.
Emad's mother had travelled to Canada after escaping ISIS herself, last year.
The raid was organized by Somaly Mam, a Cambodian woman who herself had been sold into the brothels but managed to escape, educate herself and now heads a foundation fighting forced prostitution.
And so this strange, solitary chatterbox presses on, falling into language as if to escape from herself.
She made her first attempt to escape, pulling herself onto a seat and trying to open the door.
Athamas went mad and slew one of his sons, Learchus; Ino, to escape, threw herself into the sea with her other son, Melicertes.
In her memoirs she claimed to have narrowly escaped death herself at least half a dozen times before she was 35.
