Quotes About Autonomy

The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

Rather than living our lives, we are ''lived'' by unknown and uncontrollable forces.

Don't do it if it's not something you want to do, Marta. These matters can't possibly look the same to you, standing in the midst of life, as they do to me. You should understand that you mustn't do it for my sake, but for your own.

Nobody can just let a person be.

What other people think about me is none of my business .

Este mundo puede quitarnos todo, puede prohibirnos todo, pero no está en el poder de nadie impedir nuestra autoabolición.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.

modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.

Lo que es seguro es que ahora es muy difícil para las mujeres asumir a un tiempo su condición de individuo autónomo y su destino femenino; es la fuente de estas torpezas y malestares que a veces las presenta como un sexo perdido. Y sin duda es más cómodo sufrir la esclavitud ciega que trabajar por la liberación: los muertos también están mejor adaptados a la tierra que los vivos.

Men's economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculine support—all these encourage women to ardently want to please men. They are on the whole still in a state of serfdom. It follows that woman knows and chooses herself not as she exists for herself but as man defines her. She thus has to be described first as men dream of her since her being-for-men is one of the essential factors of her concrete condition.

To be no one, all things considered, is something of a privilege.

Ce sont eux [les hommes] qui ont toujours tenu le sort de la femme entre leurs mains; et ils n'en ont pas décidé en fonction de son intérêt; c'est à leurs propres projets, à leurs craintes, à leurs besoins qu'il-ont eu régard.

Sclavul care se supune a ales s? se supun?.

Humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but in relation to himself; she is not considered an autonomous being.

Destiny is not what limits her.

If woman discovers herself as the inessential and never turns into the essential, it is because she does not bring about this transformation herself.

I pensieri vanno e vengono a loro piacere, nella nostra testa. Non lo si fa apposta a credere a ciò che si crede.

Une liberté qui ne s'emploie qu'à nier la liberté doit être niée.

Tel était le sens de ma vocation ~adulte, je reprendrais en main mon enfance et j'en ferais un chef-d'oeuvre sans faille.

I think he looks upon me as a mathematical constant whose disappearance would take him very much aback without in any way altering his destiny, since the heart of the matter lies elsewhere.

for not only does the woman of fashion project herself into things, she has chosen to make herself a thing.

O homem é livre; mas ele encontra a lei na sua própria liberdade.