Quotes About Autonomy

Am I following a path already laid out for me, or am I making it myself?

Hadn't the actors acted of their own volition?

Anything can be lived around, so long as it's only you who has to do it.

A second birth," Maria Montessori called it, when a child can move away from his mother on his own. And indeed Owen does seem like a new child, rarely crying, constantly at work on getting himself somewhere else.

A man is not defined but un-defined by autonomy: he loses his skin.

We see then that the principle of sexual autonomy is fundamentally antisocial. It not only retreats from social responsibility; it breeds social irresponsibility.

and am able to say exactly what I like without being called to account, and have complete freedom to do whatever I choose.

las personas no poseen una libertad total para pensar, decir o hacer lo que quieran, ya que hay límites en la capacidad de agencia humana.

Whether he likes it or not, a man

You have to take responsibility for who you are

They can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

And you've never met me, so don't bother me with your condolences. I've got no use for them.

You're having the party, Charles. Nobody knows who I am and nobody gives a damn. You can manage without me. Just try not to wake me when you come upstairs.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

It was really important for me to understand that I needed to provide for myself, and I needed to become a provider for my own family, too.

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.

I think part of the way in which kids develop emotional and psychological resiliency is by having some independence.

All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

I enjoy not being a public company.

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.

How much information I want to put out in the public domain is my prerogative.

I am a public figure, but I am not public property.