Quotes About Autonomy

I had to practice this line to use with people who come to signings and things: 'I'm sorry, I don't have sex with strangers.' Interview at Locus magazine, 2000

on birth control tells you something

Sometimes you can't save people, and sometimes they don't want to be saved.

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petite woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you—that you would save yourself.

This is why I like to handle things by myself. But when she offers her assistance, you really can't control her.

Concentreaza-te asupra ta: fa ce vrei, cand vrei, fara sa-ti bati capul cu lucrurile pe care altii le vor de la tine.

You have reached the home and workplace of Roberto Natchez. I do not often take calls. I make no promise to return them. I have much to do. You may leave a message if you wish.

I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.

I've got a cake rising," Eliza said. "I'm not leaving that for any man

Never forget that women are people, not furniture. They aren't sofas to be jumped around on at your leisure.

I have got a daughter, whose life is already separate from mine, whose will already follows its own directions, and who has quickly corrected my woolly preconceptions of her by being something remorselessly different. She is the child of herself and will be what she is. I am merely the keeper of her temporary helplessness.

The book was We Walk Alone by Ann Aldrich.

If your happiness depends on someone else, all they have to do is pull the rug out from under you and you're miserable.

I have decided to leave Clea's last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

When I went to the scientific doctor I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me and reduce me to the level of a thing. So I said: Good-morning! and left him.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

No offense but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian)

Authority. The antithesis of science.

It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.