Quotes About Autonomy

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

There's no match for the sweetness independence brings.

Well sir, if slavery is freedom then I'm glad I don't have to make a meal of it. Whips and chains are not much to my taste.

Freedom did not seem to have made anyone any less angry.

He could do anything and it would be right, for he had made himself a willing puppet of God's purpose and in so doing freed himself. He alone free, surrounded by slaves.

La belleza de hacerte promesas a ti misma es que nadie más se queja si no las cumples.

My father doesn't own me. Not even a percentage. If we marry, my loyalty will be to you. But you should know I am my own woman and do things my own way. I do not plan for that to change.

The vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.

The one thing she hated worse than being fussed over was being ignored.

We are thoroughly responsible for who we are and the circumstances in which we find ourselves. We are the ones who do the choosing.

If you're waiting for someone to make the world just right for you so you can succeed, you're on the road to nowhere.

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

When a child's needs are not met (because they conflict with those of its caretakers), the child's boundaries become defined by the needs of others, limiting the development of the sense of "self." The child does not learn to experience its own needs; it experiences only the needs of others. This blurs the boundaries between the child and others, ultimately preventing the child from differentiating its own needs from those of others.

What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.

Other people do not determine your potential.

Be wary of people who play up to your weaknesses as a way to convince you that you need them in your life. They'll try to make you think you're not smart enough on your own. You're not talented enough, and you need them to make up for what you're lacking. Don't believe those lies.

If you allow it, people will run your life. They'll tell you what to do, where to go, how to dress, and how to spend your money. It's good to get free from addictions, free from anxiety, and free from depression, but one of the greatest freedoms is to get free from controlling people.

tired of orchestrating the whole damn world so it would work the way it should. She wanted to see if someone else could do it.

Maybe he wasn't the balloon who'd been cut loose, but the one who'd untied himself from the rail.

She didn't belong to anyone, though her lovers, temporary though they were, belonged to her for all time.

Det fria samhället bygger på att vi på så många områden som möjligt ersätter huggens och slagens logik med det frivilliga handslagets logik. Att vi inte förbjuder, tvingar och kommenderar, utan att vi frågar, erbjuder och förhandlar.

The aim of all government is to make all government superfluous.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.