Quotes About Autonomy

And I choose to be alone Rather than wrapped in arms I could never need.

PRIVATE PRACTICES We may all get there...we may even arrive at the same time...but we all come alone

I enjoy the fantastic and the sheer excitement of having a sheet of white paper and a pen in one's hand and no dictator on earth can say what word I put down – I put down what I want to put down.

We get pissed off when someone tells us what to do, but we don't know what to do unless some fat bastard tell us.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

education was about the practice of freedom.

What the world needs now is liberated men who have the qualities Silverstein cites, men who are 'empathetic and strong, autonomous and connected, responsible to self, to family and friends, to society, and capable of understanding how those responsibilities are, ultimately, inseparable.' Men need feminist thinking. It it the theory that supports their spiritual evolution and their shift away from the patriarchal model. Patriarchy is destroying the well-being of men, taking their lives daily.

To be oppressed means to be deprived of your ability to choose.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed

Sadly, love will not prevail in any situation where one party, either female or male, wants to maintain control.

Maybe, then, my lesbianism is no more than your manless self-reliance turned into itself.

First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men.

Often, when information is withheld by women and men, protection of privacy is the justification. In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings—where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

Often professional prostitutes and women in everyday life hold up their free exchange of pussy for goods or services as an indication that they are liberated. They refuse to acknowledge the fact that whenever a woman prostitutes her body because she cannot satisfy material needs in other ways she risks forfeiting that space of sexual integrity where she controls her body.

I am fond of saying that if two people think and say the same thing about everything, then one of them is not necessary.

if two people think and say the same thing about everything, then one of them is not necessary.

No, not A reason. Reason itself. I want to work something out in my own mind. I want to arrive at a conclusion because I've thought it through, not because I've been told to believe it.

Libertarians or individualists believed people should be free to do whatever they wanted with their money. But in reality, people had never been free to do whatever they wanted with their money. There were laws, regulations, criminal statutes.

you will be wiser to form your own ideas of the value of your holdings, based on full reports from the company about its operations and financial position.

You have the luxury of being able to think for yourself.

To ask another man's blessing is simply to avoid taking the responsibility.

I ignored Waldhere and still spoke