Prisoner Quotes

Confinement isn't always a cell.

Several quotes on this page use 'prisoner' as a metaphor: a gift you can't set down, a status you refuse to be defined by, a phenomenon you didn't want to become trapped inside. See Citizen for the flip side of belonging.


Others speak plainly about being an ordinary or extraordinary prisoner, no metaphor attached. Continue with Conscience or Becoming to explore related ideas of identity and constraint.