Quotes About Autonomy

I will not live by rules like those.

O waste no fears on me; look to thyself.

Creon is not your downfall, no, you are your own.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

When you are one of several, then you have lost your freedom; you cannot send for your traveling boots whenever you wish, you cannot move aimlessly about in the world. ~ Either/Or

My career has kind of taken on a life of its own.

Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

We want more people owning things in this country. Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.

The only object of liberty is life.

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

The president should not be able to make me or you ever worried about what's going to happen in our personal life.

It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.

...you are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be with that person.

My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

People have a copyright on their own life.

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

I never worked in an office in my life.

In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

My kids are not interested in anything I do. And I mean that not in any dis to my children or dis to me. My kids have their own life, they could give a sh*t what I do.