"liberate herself" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone frees themselves from something that has been holding them back. For example, "Although she was terrified, she was determined to liberate herself from her past and move forward with her life."
But Ms. Slemmons "has managed to liberate herself from any artificial hierarchy of the inherent value of material," he said.
"Will the girl manage to get out of the marriage, is she strong, can she liberate herself?
But the writer Gail Sheehy suggested that Mrs. Schlafly had used marriage to liberate herself from paying jobs.
But Cwynar thinks it's a necessary way to liberate herself from the objects and to make a commentary on the excessive accumulation of possessions.
A charismatic boy becomes a dangerous cult leader, enslaving his wife, a snake handler, who plots to liberate herself and their children from his thrall.
Her intensity was such that she seemed to be tapping not just to talk, but to live, to liberate herself from the lifelong restrictions imposed by cerebral palsy.
In the process, she seems to have liberated herself as a writer and discovered a far more direct, accessible, overtly emotional way into her audience's heart".
The harder she swings, the more this jazz singer with a thick, knotty contralto and a mischievous sense of humor liberates herself from demure cabaret convention.
The same year Coral Fang dropped, Dalle was liberating herself from a turbulent marriage to her first husband, Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong.
Her missive to Brazil, when she sends it, will be literal: since 2007, Davey has "liberated" herself from concerns about "fingerprints and dings" on prints by sending them as mailed correspondence.
Released in 1967 to outrage and condemnation, Luis Buñuel's sublime "Belle de Jour" stars a frosty, breathtakingly young Catherine Deneuve as a proper bourgeois wife who, by becoming a whore, liberates herself, ruins her husband and possibly goes mad.
