Quotes About Autonomy

one human being is not, and can never be, responsible for another human being's decision to end their own life.

Let them have their ways, but let us never loose ours.

That's the way I want you to live your life, Caitlin. The way you want to, not the way that circumstances dictate.

A free mind will out-think a controlled mind every time.

We will not get real freedom as a concession from rulers. We will have to win real freedom for ourselves.

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

Todo mundo diz que quer liberdade. É mentira. A liberdade traz muita confusão à cabeça. Melhores são as rotinas, que nos livram da maçada de ter de tomar decisões sobre o que fazer com a liberdade. Quem tem rotinas não precisa tomar decisões. A vida já está decidida.

The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

Daughter am I in my mother's house; But mistress in my own.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

Eighteen, and in control of my own destiny. For that man is strongest who stands alone.

Freedom, I was beginning to realize, is something you have to insist upon.

I believe in local control of education.

Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

Paradoxically, without self-control you can't be free.

It is quite possible for man, in ancient or modern times, to be materially prosperous, and freed from the necessity of choice, and yet servile. It is also possible that he may suffer no outrageous oppression. But he must always lack one thing, this servile man, and that is true manhood, the dignity of man. He remains a child; he never comes into man's birthright, which is the pleasure and the pain of making one's own choices.

When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again!

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

If feminism was reduced to one word, it would be this: No. "No" is a boundary, spoken only by a self who claims one. Objects have neither; subjects begin at "No". Feminists said "No" and we meant it.