Quotes About Agency

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

Choices in life are not and should not be determined by our life circumstances.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

Never would I have a man saying what or who were best for me, and that were all there were to it.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

I'm not an encyclopedia of ancient Egyptian history, but women did hold positions of status in ancient Egypt. Obviously, famously, people like Nefertiti and Cleopatra actually ruled, which we don't often think about women having a lot of agency in the ancient world, but in ancient Egypt, they did.

The idea that average people are helpless pawns caught in a machine run by the elite comes straight from the vulgar-Marxist copybook, which taught generations of party members that they inhabited a deterministic world where agency was reserved for capitalists—or, more precisely, for capital itself.

Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.

It is the body that possesses itself: Owning something means to be able to control it, and selfhood is intimately related to the very moment in which the body discovers that it can control itself—as a whole. It is exactly what happens when you wake up in the morning, when you "come to yourself.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

The very word "bank" caused heartburn among the Saudis, who associated it with the collection of interest. For that reason, when the king accepted Young's draft charter and created the central bank by royal decree in 1952, the institution was called the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, or SAMA, the name it still bears.

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

Black people have no reason to fear political free agency.

McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.

My husband and I adopted our children through a private agency, Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children. As a nonprofit organization, it relies on client fees as well as donor support to do its work.

What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality.

Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

I think it was Denoon who said that the closest you can come in life to experiencing free will is when you do things at random. There is no free will. Everything is still determined when you make random choices, but you stop noticing.