Quotes About Autonomy

Women are giving a ton of reluctant yeses, and they are mad and getting madder. "Most women have a difficult time saying no, especially if they think someone's feelings may be at stake or if they think they'll not be liked," wrote Dr. Kathryn Lively.

Decisions are not up for negotiation.

Because if you base your self-worth on what everyone else thinks of you, you hand all your power over to other people and become dependent on a source outside of yourself for

Because if you base your self-worth on what everyone else thinks of you, you hand all your power over to other people and become dependent on a source outside of yourself for validation.

He will challenge me, physically turn me inside out, and I will like it; the only thing I own is my body, and it will do whatever I say, even if the wisest decision is to do the opposite.

Take people's advices but... LET THE CHOICE BE YOURS:)

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.

Should you ever decide, in those small dark hours, to hang yourself, well, that is your choice. But don't hunt for the rope until morning. By then you'll find a much better use for it.

Sir, no amount of money, no matter how vast, could induce me to stroll, perambulate, promenade, or engage in any form of locomotion with you whatsoever. Good evening.

But here, surrounded by friends who wanted her, she recognized for the first time that there was only one voice that truly mattered. Only one she had to listen to. Her own.

She doesn't get to tell my story. I do.

To hell with God," Fern said. "I'm worried about the Internet." "By which you mean an all-seeing, all-knowing entity that may be predicting and controlling your behavior, even when you think you're choosing for yourself?

No one leaped to his feet to rescue her. I think we all knew Grace well enough to understand that she would prefer to rescue herself from this predicament, and we were right.

Barbara looked alarmed. "You mean you could have decided to be anybody?" "Not anybody, but the person I became. I think we are who we are because consciously, or unconsciously, we choose ourselves.

If one thing was perfectly, crystalline clear, it was that I could take care of myself. I just kept coming and coming and coming. I was what I was.

What fun is it playing by other people's rules?

Even if no one else loves you, you can. Even if no one else ever puts you first, you can.

They seem to believe that, left to my own devices, I might do something ill-advised,

Eve reached out to stop me before I could. "Could I do this part alone?

have the keys to my prison in my own hand, and no remedy presents itself so soon to my heart as mine own sword.

There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.

I'm not a compilation of symptoms. Not a casualty of shitty parents and an even shittier chemical makeup. Not a problem. Not a diagnosis. Not an illness. Not something to be rescued. I'm a person.

No one can lock you back in, Libby. You choose whether you let them.