Quotes About Autonomy

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

We have power over nothing except our will.

We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.

The necessity of creation is the sovereign power of choice

Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.

If you want change you must take full responsibility for yourself. No one else defines how you live. You are the only one with the power for your self-change.

The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.

And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.

Power is the ability to control people or things. So, unless you learn to control your own self first, how would you be able to influence anybody else? Now, doesn't that apply to all of us?

If you can't control an emotion, it is not yours. You are in control.

You can be all that you wish to be.The power is in your own hands.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent

Maybe it frightened them, to admit that a woman could be master of her fate.

You are the slave of your mind!

Everybody has a second personality, it may possess and make you do whatever it likes.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.