Quotes About Autonomy

Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.

I'm not a housewife in any way.

I do all my own shopping and housework.

At 16, I got housing benefit, and I had my own flat in an old woman's house. I was the only 16-year-old I knew living alone.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

I'm not just going to hug every person that asks to hug me.

I give people a huge amount of rope, and then I hold them accountable for the rope.

Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

It's only human nature to want to know what you can do on your own or with someone else.

It's humiliating, being told you're not responsible enough to make your own choices in life.

Oneself, indeed, is one's own protector. One does, indeed, [make] one's own destiny.

Si vous êtes pris dans le rêve de l'autre; vous êtez foutus.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

If you let a man cancel plans or decline to do things for you, you lose.

It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and fucking figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.

Go online and fucking figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.

I wonder what it feels like to be a woman whose Christmas present must be bought in cash. Liberating.

It was commonly known that Annabelle absolutely hated her husband's last name—she even crumpled up her nose when she said it. It never occurred to her that she didn't have to take it.

It's not stand by your man anymore, it's divorce the fucker.

Make your own choices before anyone else makes them for you and way before the house lights are lowered.

You can't convince me that I'm obligated to save you from yourself.