Quotes About Autonomy

Because I wanted to do, I did. Where I wanted to feed, I fed.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

There is never any God in a country where men will not help themselves.

Do not let others do your thinking for you. Choose your own thoughts and make your own decisions.

your car, etc. 4. You have freedom to choose. You can choose a good habit or

A woman is not dependent on her husband for health, peace, joy, inspiration, guidance, love, wealth, security, happiness, or anything in the world. Her security and peace of mind come from her knowledge of the inner powers within her and from the constant use of the laws of her own mind in a constructive fashion.ph

10. You are the captain of your soul (subconscious mind) and the master of your fate. Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health! Choose happiness!

The suggestions of others in themselves have absolutely no power whatever over you except the power that you give them through your own thoughts. You have to give your mental consent; you have to entertain the thought.

Your greatest power is your capacity to choose.

the New Woman of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date—to work her own property, to live free of the strictures that governed her mother's generation. (…) She flouted Victorian-era conventions and scandalized her parents. In many ways, she controlled her own destiny.

And in a world where individuals felt their vote counted little either in the political arena or the workplace, they could at least demonstrate authority over their own bodies.

As I started a new life in Arizona, I knew I was losing myself. Even a lost place within yourself is a place, albeit liminal, a kind of border town. You can make a temporary home if you need to from found materials and shreds of forgotten dreams, and you can even dress to appear somewhat ordinary as you run away, a refugee from yourself. I rolled up the map of my known world and set it aside for some kind of strange autonomy.

I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.

I will be the clinician of my own pathology.

For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.

No I don't, no I reject that I reject you, I am not your sister, I am not your twin, I am not you.

A woman convinced against her will is of the same opinion still.

While it took much longer than I ever anticipated to see my writing efforts pay off, it finally happened so that at the age of forty-three I was my own woman, beholden to no one.

Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!

When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.

I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me.

We are the only ones who can make decisions for ourselves about how we will handle the situations that arise in our lives. Life is not likely to get any easier, but our approach to life can change and that will make it easier.

You do not have to stay in a bad situation. You get to make a choice, and that choice is 100% yours.

We must take responsibility for ourselves, and stop expecting others to do for us what we should be doing for ourselves... or trusting God to do for us.