Quotes About Autonomy

I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

The guys who don't make it through SEAL training are the Rambo wannabes. If you cannot work in a team format but also function autonomously, you won't last for very long.

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

Choosing when and whether to have a baby is a fundamental right for all women, no matter where they live.

I leave abortion to the woman. I just fundamentally end there. I absolutely support a woman's right to choose.

I believe that those closest to the children should be making the decisions about how funds should be spent, what the curriculum should look like, and what's the best way to help our students.

even my different drummer heard a different drummer

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.

What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never have his own way-- or always to have it. She doesn't know which is th' worst.

All that I do is right—for me. I make it so by doing it. Do you think that I am conquered by the laws that other women crouch and whine before, because they dare not break them, though they long to do so? I am my own law—and the law of some others.

She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authority, so she would not have thought it necessary to ask Mrs. Medlock if she might walk about the house, even if she had seen her.

Las dos peores cosas que le pueden suceder a un niño es no salirse nunca con al suya, o salirse siempre con ella. Susan Sowerby

and felt it as well to make his own freedom from responsibility quite clear without any delay.

I am my own law–and the law of some others.

And, I think, for those of us who came of age with the women's movement, there's always the fear that it's not real, you're not really allowed to determine your own life. It may be pulled back at any moment.

Daddy Jack and Fanny don't care what I do as long as I stay out of the kitchen. She looms over the stove, madly coating everything she cooks with cayenne pepper and several shakes of Tabasco.

Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right.

You are free, you just don't know it ~Michael to Sarah