Quotes About Autonomy

My death will not be penciled on someone's calendar.

Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool.

Okay,' I said quietly. 'I'll do whatever you say. Just remember not to talk down to me. I'm not your student anymore. I'm your equal now.' He glanced away from the side of the road just long enough to give me a surprised look. 'You've always been my equal, Roza.

However, he also trusted me to make my own decisions. Contradicting me or telling me what to do wasn't in his nature - even though he secretly may have wanted to.

We're all in charge of our own lives—and we have to live with the consequences of the choices we make.

Okay, but if you try to get me to pray with you, I walk.

We're all in charge of our own lives—and we have to live with the consequences of the choices we make." Those

I guess I just had trouble shaking that feeling that I had to take care of everything because no one else could do it right.

None of us are meant to be or do anything. We decide what we're going to be.

No puedo creer que no quieras nada. Va a ser un cumpleaños aburrido. "Libertad", pensé yo. Ése era el único regalo que anhelaba: libertad para tomar mis propias decisiones, libertad para amar a quien yo quisiese. No importa -dije en cambio. ¿Qué es lo que...? -se detuvo. Lo comprendió. Siempre lo hacía.

I don't belong to anyone. I make my own choices." "And you're with Adrian," said Dimitri. "But I was meant for you.

I don't belong to anyone. I make my own choices.

I really don't care what you do, but maybe it'll keep you busy enough that you'll stop coming over here unannunced and throwing yourself at creatures of darkness.

if you live for the approval of others, you will die by their rejection.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

That's all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there.

I didn't want to walk into the pages of McCall's magazine and become the model housewife. I didn't even want a husband or any man for that matter. I wanted to go my own way. That's all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there. Love, but not the now and forever kind with chains around your vagina and a short circuit in your brain. I'd rather be alone.

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married adn I didn't want him to.

Everybody is making his own rules to suit himself.

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.

Each of us has a short ride on this earth and as long as we stay in our lane, and don't affect someone else's ride, we should be allowed to drive as we see fit.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.