Quotes About Autonomy

I like money very well. It is the means to independence and authority.

There was never a man present in all her dreams of freedom; there had always been only her, in glorious , splendid solitude, replete in and of herself.

AIBO permits something different: attachment without responsibility.

Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.

the transformative power of intelligence, self-reliance, and words.

Lizzy's inarching to her own drummer

If you observe a baby, you'll quickly see that we are born knowing what we like and don't like, when we're hungry, tired, or need connection. We know ourselves quite well at birth, and it's only as a result of well-meaning parents, teachers, doctors, other adults, and caregivers that our innate self-trust is damaged.

It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work

Self-study, self-exploration, self-empowerment — these are the virtues of a great education.

Educators don't necessarily have to teach. Instead, they can provide an environment and resources that tease out your natural ability to learn on your own.

Loneliness from time to time was the price of freedom, and freedom wasn't a stars and stripes, Boy Scout idea, it was doing what you damn well wanted to do—all the time.

We are free till we make choices. After that, the choice controls us and we have no more choice.

Ich bin kein Kind, ich bin nicht niedlich; warum soll man so jemanden streicheln?

Men are made stronger on the realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own right arm.

But listen, the day one decides to take the reins of one's own life into one's own hands

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Freedom means having the right to freely educate your children, and freely means no obligation to send them in a public school, where teachers want to inculcate principles different from the principles that their parents want to inculcate them in a familiar context.

All of them with their own lives, untouched by mine. Or each other's.

And we all have the right to go to Hell in our own way.

Please don't try and hug me. Everyone always wants to hug me, and I am not the hugging type.

See - this book belongs to you,' Hannah said sweetly. 'No young lady,' the birdman said. 'It belongs to you - but you don't belong to it.' He leaned in very close to her. 'You belong to you,' he said.

You can't carry the blame for others or their future consequences. None of us can. That's the road to self-destruction.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.