Quotes About Autonomy

It had become quite clear to me that I gated being told what to do. I wanted to be independent.

Don't let yourselves get caught up in someone else's story. Stick to your own tale, my darlings. Write your own ending

Don't let yourselves get caught up in someone else's story. Stick to your own tale, my darlings. Write your own ending if you need to.

Distinguish yourself. [Mama] wanted me to be more like her. But Papa had always wanted me to be my own woman. He wanted me to distinguish myself from my mother.

She felt thankful her father always gave her the freedom to express herself how she wished and live her life the way she thought was right. He allowed her to be herself,

No other person can have power over you or your destiny unless you decide to let him or her have it.

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

When we acknowledge that human beings have the right to choose, we deprive ourselves of it

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

To be sure, my freedom lay simply in the fact that no one cared any longer where I went or what I did.

No one will ever breathe one breath for us. No one will ever think one thought that is ours. No one will ever stand in our bodies, experience what happens to us, feel our fears, dream our dreams, or cry our tears. We are born, live, and leave this life entirely on our own. That "self," and the divine spirit which drives it, are what we have. No one else can ever live a single moment of our lives for us. That we must do for ourselves. That is responsibility.

It was not his custom or his pleasure to listen to gossip or instructions from people who were strangers to him, even if they did share the same skin colour, or religion, or traditions.

The only real freedom any of us have is making our own decisions.

It's not magic. I remember because I make comparisons. Not in terms of better or worse, just different. And not all of these memories are great, but they're mine. Which lends way to believe, that none of our lives are put together on an assembly line. We're not pre-packaged with memories or programmed with stories. We have to make our own.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life...go make your happily-ever-after happen.

If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price.

She thought now it was time to be tested, to make decisions and find her own roads, to stop falling where she was told to fall and to stand only when allowed to stand.

No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Tell me, is it evil to simply try to control your own life?

Without choice, there is no power.

You've always been independent. And stubborn about it. You were only four years old when you told me you didn't need me to tuck you in anymore and you could do it yourself. I could never make you understand it wasn't whether or not you could do it. It was about sharing those last few minutes of your day with you. You have a way of not letting people in." (Kindle Locations 2492-2495)

You are the variable in every equation, Mademoiselle.