Quotes About Autonomy

Every child has to raise itself.' Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction.

But there's only one person I'm accountable to, and that's me.

She's not a mother to me – I have to mother myself. I've cut myself adrift from them. I'm charting my own course, and we'll see where it leads me.

Of course, there are those who blow you kisses or try to take hold of your arm, but they're definitely knocking on the wrong door.

I've made up my mind to lead a different life from other girls, and not to become an ordinary housewife later on.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately, people shape their own characters.

I didn't trust anyone but myself.

Every child has to raise itself." Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately, people shape their own characters.

You have to be a warrior and say, Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine. (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)

The single most radical thing I know . . . is that I get to take care of myself.

At the same time, the truth is that we are beloved, even in our current condition, by someone; we have loved and been loved. We have also known the abyss of love lost to death or rejection, and that it somehow leads to new life. We have been redeemed and saved by love, even as a few times we have been nearly destroyed, and worse, seen our children nearly destroyed. We are who we love, we are one, and we are autonomous.

The harm is in the unwanted help or helping them when they need to figure things out for themselves. Help is the sunny side of control.

What those people think of me is none of my business.

We cannot arrange lasting safety or happiness for our most beloved people. They have to find their own ways, their own answers.

How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of coming of age -to learn how to stand alone.

Woman must come of age by herself. She must find her true center alone.

Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are. I have heard you say 'If I were you, I would do this—or that.' 'I' am never 'you'—and my solutions may not be yours.

do not walk slowly simply for company—ever.

I do not need anyone to lead me astray! I am perfectly capable of going on my own!

one thing about responsibility Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you cannot ever take anyone else's, no matter how you love them, and no one can give you theirs. We each stand alone.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game," she said. "Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on.

We will eat the figs of our own tree, and the grapes of our own garden.