Quotes About Autonomy

This is a step forward. You don't need to tolerate people people who don't respect you. And you don't need to speak with everyone who has a grievance. You aren't Queen Daleina. You Queen Cajara, and you'll do things your way.

This is a step forward. You don't need to tolerate people who don't respect you. And you don't need to speak with everyone who has a grievance. You aren't Queen Daleina. You Queen Cajara, and you'll do things your way.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.

I, woman, give birth: and this time to myself.

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

You don't owe anybody the present other than yourself. Take time for you. Respect yourself and your privacy. Set boundaries.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

Time was made for slaves.

Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?

Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

I am not Captain Save-A-Ho; I can only save one at a time, and that's me!

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.