Quotes About Autonomy

Let me remind you that the measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without.

Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out.

Freedom and independence were all very well, but one should not be a little fool.

If you please, Great-Aunt Nancy, said Emily deliberately, I don't like to be told I look like other people. I look just like myself.

As for Barney Snaith, the only crime he has been guilty of is living to himself and minding his own business. He can, it seems, get along without you. Which is an unpardonable sin, of course, in your little snobocracy.

La libertad os hará libres

Bana belli etmedikleri müddetçe insanlar?n hakk?mda ne düÅŸündükleri hiç umurumda deÄŸil.

We make our own lives wherever we are, after all .

Confío en que no piense que soy una de esas horribles personas que le hacen sentir que hay que hablarles todo el tiempo. Hablaremos cuando nos apetezca.

Not that I bother much with dress myself. Women just dress to please the men, and I'd never stoop to that . I have had a real placid, comfortable life, dearie, and it's just because I never cared a cent what the men thought.

He was surrounded by tyrants who thought they had a right to order him about: it was a conspiracy. He could not call his soul his own.

It wasn't awful to be a man's sex object if you wanted to be, if it made you feel good, if everyone was happy in the end.

Because he isn't cherished, he's allowed to aim beyond his parents' petty goals. He can leave all of them behind.

If people are saying you shouldn't attack, they aren't thinking what's best for you.

Besides, though she considered herself his sweetheart, she didn't consider him her master.

But as far as trusting the general run of men, there was no need, since she had no intention of ever expecting anything from one of them again.

That in itself didn't bother her, though. If there was one thing she didn't need to do, it was to talk to a man.

I ain't kin to nobody in this world. I don't want to be. I won't be.

When his second wife died and he was free to propose, he did one day, on a picnic to the place they called her orchard, and she refused instantly, without losing a trace of merriment. Why not? he asked. I'm used to my own ways, she said. You might try to make me do something I wouldn't want to do. Don't I indulge your every whim? he asked. Yes, but that's because you haven't got me, Clara said. I bet you'd change fast if I ever let you get the upper hand. p340

have precious little free will, he was saying. We're too intelligent not to see the right answers.

Friends don't reprogram friends, even when they're able.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

I needed to be free to choose not to be free, get me? If someone told me I had to be a slave, 'cause I'm a woman, or 'cause I'm black, I'd fight like hell to be free. I need to know that everything I do is my decision. That's what makes it OK.