Quotes About Autonomy

I'd said to myself once that Gabriel preferred a life where he felt as little responsibility for others as possible. That was true. But even more true is the fact that he preferred a life where others felt no responsibility for him.

The strong know that free will is all. What I want, I must take. I

I was the authority on me.

I make the choice because it is one I can live with.

When you do for other people (Fran's daddy said once upon a time when he was drunk, before he got religion) things that they could do for themselves, but they pay you to do it instead, you both will get used to it.

I am capable of running my own life. I don't need you...I just want you.

Just because someone asks you a question, don't you think you have to answer.

A child will always be what he is, she thought, and not what you want him to be.

Dos adultos que se aman deberían ser capaces de tomar decisiones juntos, sin tener que obedecerse uno al otro.

The parents cannot sell what they do not own, namely the freedom of a grown man.

Although she was a martinet, tough on discipline, she gave her deputies room to make their own decisions. She

Papa says if you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

Always stay in your own movie.

A man has to know he had a choice before he can enjoy what he chose. I know now. That a human has to make it with other humans . . . before he can make it with himself.

As we saw, Gilligan's work suggested that men tend to reason in terms of autonomy, rights, agency, justice, and ranking; and women in terms of relationship, care, responsibility, communion, and nonranking (with individual men and women capable of any of those across the whole spectrum).

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.

Power is the ability to afford not to learn.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

I am in charge. I take my own power back.

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.