Quotes About Autonomy

No pueden hablar de democracia quienes se niegan a defender la autonomía individual frente a supuestos valores colectivos que no son sino la sujeción a dogmas y a ideologías autoritarias.

Hey, it's going to be hard to learn a great many things about me, but one I'll you for free... I am no one's son.

We are who we are, within our power and freedom. More power and more freedom we have, more we become closer to who we truly are.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.

The respectable world and I are on easy terms. I ignore it when I choose, and it does likewise with me.

It is so important to think for yourself.

Freedom is a thing you make', he says, with sudden vehemence. 'You maki it by what you do. That's about the only thing that is left us in this world.

No one can live life for you

What isn't expressed in any of the definitions given above is a perception of the witch as a figure of female empowerment: in a world of good, polite, agreeable, well-behaved, passive girls, the witch is an independent, empowered, autonomous, frequently assertive, and defiant woman, beholden to no one. (Unless,

MANTRAS FOR DAILY LIVING ?I am my own authority. ?My life is a work in progress. ?I desire wholeness.

The desire for total control over another person is the common denominator of all forms of tyranny.

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

It's a gift to let other people be themselves. Let them face their own difficulties.

The launching pad for emotional freedom is always yourself.

There will always be someone out there demanding something different from you.

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown's most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

Um modo de não sentir falta, está claro, consiste em ficar em casa, não sair, embora nem sempre precise admitir que não sai. Pois, embora alguns jovens se agarrem abertamente à família, há aqueles que, com uma grande demonstração de independência, descobrem um modo de jamais sair de casa.

It had never occurred to me that I could do something without permission. 'May I' was a way of life for a girl like me.

Darling, I have a tip," Arlene said. "Never, ever wait for a man.

Darling, I have a tip. Never, ever wait for a man.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.