Quotes About Autonomy

You must own nothing but yourself.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' That was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._

a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.

But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.

I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.

Sara had told me that a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.

She would have to do away with herself in order to have a life of her own.

no one is entitled to anything other than his freedom and the choices he makes.

It's no good to need someone more than you want them.

In every fairy tale the girl who is saved is the one who rescues herself.

You can tell just by looking at her that she never backed down or valued anyone's opinion above her own. She always believed that experience was not simply the best teacher, it was the only one

As soon as he is regarded as a possession for which one has a particular goal, as soon as one exerts control over him, his natural growth will be violently interrupted.

Experience has taught me that my own body is the source of all the vital information that has enabled me to achieve greater autonomy and self-confidence. Only when I allowed myself to feel the emotions pent up for so long inside me did I start extricating myself from my own past.

If an adult has not developed and mind of his own, then he will find himself at the mercy of the authorities for better or worse, just as an infant finds itself at the mercy of its parents. Saying no to those more powerful will always seem to threatening to him.

A patient with "antennae" for his therapist's unconscious will react promptly. If he senses that it is important to his therapist to have patients who soon become autonomous and behave with self-confidence, he will quickly feel himself autonomous and react accordingly.

People doing something that seems to them natural and necessary. At least, one of them is doing what seems natural and necessary, and the other believes that the important thing is for that person to be free, to go ahead. They understand that other people might not think so. They do not care.

People doing something that seems to them natural and necessary. At least, one of them is doing what seems natural and necessary, and the other believes that the important thing is for that person to be free, to go ahead. They understand that other people

Nikt nie mo?e wyratowa? drugiego cz?owieka. Ka?dy musi ratowa? si? sam albo jest stracony.

Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was an immaculate anonymity.

I had begun to chase my husband as I had once chased my mother, toe to toe, a shadow girl trying to be what I thought they wanted me to be. I

In many ways I was an independent woman. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.