Quotes About Autonomy

I never had a man nor a son nor anything. I just call myself Missis to give me a standing.

And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

He thought for a moment. About puppets. About being controlled. Everyone was controlled by something, the Impressionist knew. By a spouse. A parent. A boss. A friend. By one's own impulses, be they dark or light. Everyone was a puppet to something. Most people just couldn't see the strings, is all. And so they didn't believe they were puppets in the first place.

All I have to do is wake up in the morning and go to bed at night, Jazz. Everything else is optional.

Unfortunately, the proliferation of choice in our lives robs us of the opportunity to decide for ourselves just how important any given decision is.

Buying jeans is a trivial matter, but it suggests a much larger theme we will pursue throughout this book, which is this: When people have no choice, life is almost unbearable.

Thus, from cradle to grave, having control over one's life matters.

What if we have to figure out how to live and what to believe on our own, without setting the Bible up as a false idol—or an oracle that gives is a direct line of communication with the Almighty?

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will attend any attempt in a commonwealth to force men to speak only as prescribed by the sovereign despite their different and opposing opinions.

no one is bound to live as another pleases, but is the guardian of his own liberty.

Everyone is the defender of his own freedom.

Do what you want to do And go where you're going to Think for yourself 'Cause I won't be there with you

I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

I feel like, when people realize that they are the only person they need to impress, everybody's life will be a lot smoother.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.