Quotes About Autonomy

There is another reason ever-single women fare even better than previously married women in later life. They mastered the single life long ago. From structuring social events in a culture that caters to couples, to figuring out how to work and get all the tasks of everyday life accomplished when there may or may not be others readily available to do their unfair share, always-single women have been there, done that. It is not a new or daunting challenge.

Right from the start Abigail used to moan and fidget as her hair was relaxed or braided or thermally reconditioned, but her dad was determined that his child wasn't going to embarrass him in public. That all stopped when Abigail turned eleven and calmly announced that she had ChildLine on speed?dial and the next person who came near her with a hair extension, chemical straightener, or, God forbid, a hot comb, was going to end up explaining their actions to Social Services.

One of his more famous sound bites was, 'If you want something done, hire someone competent and then give them what they ask for.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

You only have the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

My success or failure in school was dependent on my ability to follow a curriculum that felt as if it had very little to do with me as a human being.

When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.

We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?

without having to turn to their central bank.

Speakers are expected to make clear that they are expressing their own views and not those of the Committee as a whole.

Don't follow people. Follow principle.

No one will do it for you.

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

Gabriel, te gusta que te manden los franceses y que con su lengua que no entiendes, te digan "haz esto, haz lo otro, y que entren en tu casa y que te hagan ser soldado de Napoleón, y que España no sea España, vamos al decir, que nosotros no seamos como nos da la gana de ser sino como el Emperador quiera que seamos?

Give me control over a man's economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I'll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to.

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.

Fools keep their moral code in a compact and indivisible whole so that it may interfere as little as possible with their actions and leave them their freedom in all matters of detail.

Sovereignty has only a limited and relative existence. At the point where independence and individual existence begin, the jurisdiction of sovereignty ends.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power

Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.