Quotes About Autonomy

I don't want to see it. I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

I want to keep on living, in any form. I resign my body freely, to the uses of others. They can do what they like with me. I am abject. I feel, for the first time, their true power.

I didn't want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas.

He was entitled to his own versions, his own conjurings. as I am. I may have served his ends, but he served mine as well.

He shouldn't have let himself be caged in here, walled off from freedom. But what does freedom mean any more? And who had caged him and walled him off? He'd done it himself. So many small choices.

God made them that way but He did not make you that way. He made you different. It's up to you to set the boundaries.

Moira had power now, she'd been set loose, she'd set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.

Don't go yet," he said, but it was never any use saying don't go yet to her. When she'd decided a thing, she was on her way.

He wouldn't have much of a life out there, picking through garbage dumps and fighting off scavengers, but at least he'd be in charge of himself again.

There were so many things that could be done to it or go wrong with it, this adult female body, that I was left feeling I would be better off without it.

Being a critical thinker starts with resisting the urge to be a pleaser.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.

My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business - Rhett Butler

I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men's help--except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help it.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man.

Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men's help--except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help it.

I've never bothered about what people said.

Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.