Quotes About Autonomy

Love can exist without need

If ever you make it so they don't need you, they will kill you.

Take all self-determination from a man's life, and all that is left for him to do is complain.

Men it is who think they can rule others' lives but have no bonds to them.

Wait for you? Not likely! I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way.

No man becomes a pirate because he wants to be ruled by another.

No. Not tonight. Not by impulse, not without thought, No. It did not matter what others did. She had to think for herself about such things.

Men it is who think they can rule others' lives, but have no bonds to them. Do you think that to bond or not to bond is for you alone to decide? My heart is my own. I give it where I will. I will not give it to one who thrusts me aside.

I know you think it slatternly, the way I am with men. But once you have been forced, it is … different. Ever after. I say to myself, well, I know that it can happen to me at any time. So this way, at least I decide with whom and when. There will never be children for me, and hence there will never be a permanent man. So why should not I take my pick of what I can have?

Hombres son los que creen que pueden regir las vidas de los demás sin establecer ningún lazo con ellos. ¿Piensas que la decisión de vincularse o no depende sólo de ti? Soy dueño de mi corazón. Lo entrego a voluntad. No pienso entregárselo a alguien que me expulsa de su lado.

What sort of person would cling to the hope that someone else would return to give meaning to her life? What sort of quivering parasite needed someone else to validate her existence?

I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do.

To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

once you put a man in charge of something, you didn't ride him while he did the task.

Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

Be content with your own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what path they will follow.

Be content with your own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what path they will follow." She frowned up at him. "Even when you see, with absolute clarity, that it is wrong for them? That they hurt themselves?" "Perhaps people have a right to their pain," he hazarded. Reluctantly he added, "Perhaps they even need it.

Travel became distinguishable from pain and began to be regarded as an intellectual pleasur...These factors--the voluntariness of departure, the freedom implicit in the indeterminancies of mobility, the pleasure of travel free from necessity, the notion that travel signifies autonomy and is a means for demonstrating what one 'really' is independent of one context or set of defining associations--remain the characteristics of the modern conception of travel. Eric Leed

Be true to yourself. Do what you want to do. Be your own person. Make the most of your life because it's your life..." Uncle Bob to Christy

Not until she, and you, and I, fully comprehend the enormity - that all issues are women's issues to be defined in women's ways and confronted in women's ways - can any of us break free and refuse to settle for rebellion within his deadly context.

The key is in learning how to live a healthy, satisfying, and serene life without being dependent on another person for happiness.

it's not exactly liberty if they force you to say it, is it?

to see you kids eating my berries." I knew the difference: In the fields behind my house, the berries belonged to themselves.

It's up to you." He reached across the front seat and grabbed her hand. "It's always up to you." He drew her hand to his lips and pressed a soft kiss into her palm.