Quotes About Autonomy

you can only do what's right for yourself. You can't control anyone else.

There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's.

No one completes us.  No one is our missing piece, our other half.  We complete ourselves or fail to.   No one else could be successful in that role because each of us is utterly unique.  There isn't another "you" anywhere on this planet.  If you somehow feel incomplete, the answers aren't out there somewhere.  The answers are in the room.  You have them.  

A six-week trip to China in 1973 convinced me—if I needed convincing—that the autonomy of the aesthetic is something to be protected, and cherished, as indispensable nourishment to intelligence. But a decade-long residence in the 1960s, with its inexorable conversion of moral and political radicalisms into "style," has convinced me of the perils of over- generalizing the aesthetic view of the world.

Dzisiaj przysz?a mi do g?owy pewna my?l - tak jasna i oczywista! W pierwszej chwili wyda?a mi si? wr?cz niedorzeczna, wprawi?a mnie w oszo?omienie i wr?cz lekk? histeri? - Mog? zrobi? absolutnie wszystko i poza mn? sam? nie istnieje nic, co by mnie powstrzyma?o.

If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.

she would never find happiness in trying to please others if she didn't honor her own gifts.

the administrator was known to be an extreme antichoice activist who insisted that a ball of cells the size of a garbanzo bean should supersede the will of a living, breathing woman.

force me to have a baby against my will. That's . . . It's barbaric. It's like . . . Handmaid shit.

You don't believe a woman should be allowed to make private decisions about her own health.

You know what else is my constitutional right? To get an abortion. You don't get to choose what rights belong to me.

I can see the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled. Jane Welsh Carlyle, (1845)

I understood why it might seem to Dawn as if I were yielding my freedom to provide a home for John. But I wasn't, not really. I was choosing, freely, to commit my time, my work, my attention, my life-energy to the boy. In choosing, I was exercising my freedom.

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own

Privacy, precisely because it ensures that we are never fully known to others, provides a shelter for imaginative freedom, curiosity and self-reflection.

The movement was in me, but it wasn't me. It was another little something, a someone, willfully choosing to flex his flippery future arms, or whatever it was he had by then. It was a choice, but I hadn't made it. It was inside me, and mine, but I did not control it.

She's stepped right in and owned me, and yet, it does not feel like surrender. There is choice inside surrender. This is something much more basic.

Men are overly sensitive to being told what to do. If they are persuaded to understand that they're making you happy by doing more, they'll be a lot more interested than if they're doing it because they're being told.

As late as 1820, families made three quarters of all goods—food, clothing, tools—for their own use.

The bonds of family can be wonderful but there is a time to know when to stand apart.

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

everything thing you've done is either what you chose to do or others chose for you . your life is what you are making of it. Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.