Quotes About Autonomy

Authority." I say the word as if it's a foreign expression I've heard for the very first time. "What about me makes you think that's a word I care for or yield to?

The flexibility of the compilation, the ability to create bespoke texts from segments of other works, was one of the key features distinguishing the manuscript book world from the age of print, where the order and nature of texts was established before they came into the hands of the purchaser. This loss of autonomy in the creation of books would be one of the major sources of regret among established collectors in the transition from manuscript to print in the fifteenth century.

I realized there was no freedom without funds.

for only with independence can you let your own life express itself naturally. To be tied down to someone else's routine, doing things you dislike Ã¢â'¬â€œ that is not life Ã¢â'¬â€œ not for me .

I don't let just anyone fine me, you know?

Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

You are the only person who can make this work, and you are the only person who can mess this up.

Adders never interfered in other beings' affairs, as long as it didn't affect them directly. In their view, everyone has the right to live their lives just as foolishly as they like.

A choice which should be respected, for it is the holy and irrefutable right of every woman.

Freedom and contempt have their limits. Anyway, it's always like that. You're always somebody's tool.

I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice.

We can choose not to allow the choices and actions of someone else to dictate our own.

if you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own. Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others.

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee - you are a business with one employee, you. Andy Grove, CEO, Intel

Learning isn't done to you; it's something you do.

I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by the presence within her of the embryo she brought to term. Her unthinking ability to reproduce, which is her pride, is, since it is beyond choice, not a specific virtue of her own.

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force.

Excretion is his first concrete production and, through it, the child gains his first experience of labour relations. He may reserve the right to go on excremental strike or to engage in a form of faecal offensive. The excremental faculty is a manipulative device and to be baulked of the free control of it is to be deprived of the first, most elementary, expression of autonomy.

Because she is the channel of life, woman as mythic mother lives at one remove from life. A woman who defines herself through her fertility has no other option. So a woman who feels she has been deprived of motherhood is trebly deprived—of children; of the value of herself as mother; and of her own self, as autonomous being.

But you are mine no longer. You are a man, with a man's concerns, and

Obedience without choice is servitude. Love without choice is not love.

How many women get to choose who to marry and can truly dictate their own life? As God is my witness, my daughter will have choices.