Quotes About Autonomy

It is perhaps unwise to allow one person to influence one's decisions . . . People can disappoint us, you know.

It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person. [p. 62]

You are more than who you fuck

By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individual is completely autonomous and should have entire control over its own fate, this seems to me unrealistic even for human beings, and far too one-sided to be used as a central tool of morality.

because individualism is giving us real difficulties today. Although it is a guiding ideal for our age, accepted as a main achievement of the Enlightenment, it takes many different forms.

And that I did not give to anyone the responsibility for my life. It is mine. I made it. And can do what I want to with it. Give it back, someday, without bitterness, to the wild and weedy dunes.

Let the path become where I choose to walk, and not otherwise established.

And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

And that I did not give to anyone the responsibility for my life. It is mine. I made it. And can do what I want to with it. Live it. Give it back, someday, without bitterness, to the wild and weedy dunes.

What I mean is, I wanted to live my life but I didn't want to do what I had to do

I did not give to anyone the responsibility for my life.It is mine. I made it. And can do what I want to with it.

But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice, which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do — determined to save the only life you could save.

My body is not my own.

They're not going to bother me tonight. They won't denigrate my efforts, or ridicule anything that's mine, won't roll their eyes, or correct me, or cut me short and leave the room. They won't burden, or overwork me, or heap upon me responsibilities that are theirs. And, no more than they are doing, they won't intrude on my privacy, try to embarrass me or make me uncomfortable. Plus, they seem pretty far beyond hurting each other.

I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.

Jo no desitjo que les dones tinguin poder sobre els homes, sinó sobre elles mateixes. - Mary Shelley

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Give me time to be myself, know myself, become a little used to happiness. The rest will be up to me.

It is for you to choose. Choice is man's right, and for that I leave you free.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

You're into what you're into, I'm into what I'm into. We don't have to be into the same shit, and if you're safe, sane, and happy, then go on and get you some.

the complexity of society does not imply a planner.

A Californian firm called Morning Star Tomatoes has been experimenting with 'self-management' for two decades.

a person who is free to make a $20,000 purchase of a car as a customer, might not be free to buy an office chair for $500 as an employee. Little wonder that big companies grow more slowly than small ones (firms whose chief executives attend the annual World Economic Forum schmooze-fest in Davos tend to underperform the stock market), and big public bodies have worse reputations than small ones.