Quotes About Autonomy

We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

Luckily for me, I don't depend on seeing every patient who comes through my door to pay the rent, and so if someone is involved in an activity that I don't like, I just don't accept that person as a client.

As long as you have your own apartment and you can pretty much make rent for the next year, you're golden!

If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don't have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells.

I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in my life, to reply, 'I shan't do that, mother.' That was so far away from my barrio world.

Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.

In elementary school, I think all my report cards said, 'Emily plays well alone.'

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I do not represent any product or any collection.

Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.

What is important to me is that I'm not accountable to and not controlled by party leadership. At the end of the day, I'm able to make my own decisions according to what's best for the community and the constituents I represent. It doesn't depend on what the partisanship is to the right or to the left.

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.

I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.

I am not a representative of anything. I have my opinions.

After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.

I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.

At the end of the day, me representing myself shouldn't be a big deal.

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

Being able to control your reproduction is essential to women's ability to flourish in the United States.

A woman has the right to choose her reproductive health care.