Kalen Emsley

For Girls With Wild Hearts That Can't Be Caged

She belongs to no man, no city. She belongs to herself.
Sade Andria Zabala
November 17, 2016
“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
Tagged: Free Spirit, Self-Contradictory, ENFP, Wild, Tame, Intensity
“He quieted you.
But you were not born to be quiet.”
— Tatum Ryan, He Tried To Quiet You, But You Were Born To Scream
Tagged: Wild, Wild Woman, Being a woman, Strong Women, Loud, Loud Woman, Confident Woman
“I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if they’d fallen from the sun.”
— Roman Payne, via Facebook
Tagged: Women, Wandress, Wanderer, Free Spirit, Being a woman, Female Body
“When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.”
— Dean Jackson, via Pinterest
Tagged: Women, Wandress, Wanderer, Free Spirit, Being a woman, Female Body, female, Becoming A Woman
“Her heart was wild
but I didn't want to catch it,
I wanted to run with it,
to set mine free.”
— Atticus, via Instagram
Tagged: Wild, Wanderess, Wanderer, female, Wild Heart, Set Free, My Favorites
“She belonged to no man and to no city.”
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
Tagged: Women, Wandress, Wanderer, Free Spirit, Being a woman
“her spirit is full and her mind is wild.
she has an avalanche soul and a heart that beats too loud.”
— Ashley Duvan, Instagram
Tagged: Free Spirit, travel, Love
“I also think I have a little bit of an edgy element. A bit of a wild child, I’ll never be the good girl.”
— Willam Belli, Dirty Mag
Tagged: Wild Child, Sex, Edge
“Jess wouldn’t argue that, but he saw her as a beautiful wild creature who had been caught for a moment in that dirty old cage of a schoolhouse, perhaps by mistake.”
— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: creature, Wild, beauty, mistake
“It is like she is in a new skin. She is on her own satellite. She is all alone out there and it’s something you want to watch. It’s as if she’s an amazing piece of art.”
— Anne Roth, Nicole Kidman’s Marriage to Tom Cruise: A Mystery She’s Just Beginning to Understand
Tagged: Wild Child, Free Spirit
“There is shame.
There is fear.
And there is a dizzying
freedom.”
— Clementine Von Radics, The Brief Two Seconds After You Ruin Everything
Tagged: Wild Child, Spilled Ink, Freedom, Free Spirit
“…Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.”
— Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Tagged: Wild Child, Free Spirit, Selfish, Greed
“‘Nature is woman’s best friend,’ she often said. ‘If you’re having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That’s how a woman cures her fears.’”
— Fatema Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
Tagged: Nature, Wild Child, Free Spirit, Womanhood
“Moon marked and touched by sun
my magic is unwritten
but when the sea turns back
it will leave my shape behind.
I seek no favor
untouched by blood
unrelenting as the curse of love
permanent as my errors
or my pride
I do not mix
love with pity
nor hate with scorn
and if you would know me
look into the entrails of Uranus
where the restless oceans pound.”
— Audrey Lorde, A Woman Speaks
Tagged: Poetry, Nature, Free Spirit
“A mermaid without fins - who knew? You can’t
drown me now, I learned how to drown
myself and I’d
rather choke on ocean foam than swim
in strangers’ beds.”
— Sade Andria Zabala, WAR SONGS
Tagged: Surfing, Free Spirit, Mermaid, One Night Stand
“You are a wolf,
and you are hungry
but you howl for no man.

You are a wolf,
and you will cry for no one but
the moon.”
— Sade Andria Zabala, WAR SONGS
Tagged: Moon, Independent Woman, Poetry, Wolf, Single, Wild Child