Quotes About Autonomy

Nothing tastes better than what one eats by oneself.

Take from the rest of us all that you can assimilate, that can become a part of you, but never still the small voice inside your head that whispers to you, I like it better my way.

How many late dinners of ham and pickled anchovies? How many arguments over the sock drawer—blacks mixing with navy blues—until they decided at last to have separate drawers? Separate duvets, as in Germany? Separate brands of coffee and tea? Separate vacations

Life is fraught with sorrows: no matter what we do, we will in the end die; we are, each of us, held in the solitude of an autonomous body; time passes, and what has been will never be again.

The best part of my new job was finally running my own show and no longer having to answer to people like [Chris Kimsington].

I dont want to be anybody's mother. Im not done being a kid myself.Im way to young and so are you

People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.

Early suffragists saw the vote as key to all women's personal as well as political autonomy. But a hundred years of women's suffrage has shown that gaining the right to vote or run for office will not be enough as long as we're threatened with emotional, physical, economic or sexual abuse af work, at school or in our own homes.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left." ? Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife

She didn't want to be an out-and-out character any more than she wanted to be one of the herd, so Beth beat herself a path between the two.

She could never be free from herself, but she could be free from her father, and at the moment that mattered most.

she'd rather be alone than cling to people she didn't care about.

It was a kind of duty you owed yourself that when anybody said come on son do this or do that you should stand up and say look mister why should I do this for whom am I doing it and what am I going to get out of it in the end?

I earn my own respect, I told Emilie. I don't ride the coattails of someone else.

can think of no right more fundamental than the right to peacefully steward the contents of one's own consciousness.

we are free to interpret and reinterpret the meaning of our lives.

You are not in control of your mind—because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.15 You can do what you decide to do—but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

Where is the freedom in this? Yes, you are free to do what you want even now. But where did your desires come from?

I can think of no right more fundamental than the right to peacefully steward the contents of one's own consciousness.

You can do what you decide to do-but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

With any teacher or book, take what resonates with you and leave the rest. Your own mind is your greatest teacher. Trust it.

I learned this early on in the variety store business: you've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.