Quotes About Autonomy

I hate rules. I hate government intervention. Just live and let live, man.

Only you really know what you need. Only you can make it happen for yourself. Only you can decide what is good for you, what is bad for you, what can make your life better, or what will make it worse. Be an advocate for yourself. Stand up for what you need. If you don't manage your stress, who will? A best friend should know you like he knows himself. Be your own best friend, and that's exactly what you'll have.

But you know so many men," Ophelia said, "isn't there even one for you?" "They're all adjectives," I said, "they all make me feel modified; even a word like girl friend gives me this feeling I've been cut in half. I'd rather just be a car, not a blue car or a big one, than sit there the rest of my life being stuck with some adjective.

So it turned out that power was the quality of knowing what you liked. An odd thing for power to be.

If you are trying to please, how do you take responsibility for your own needs? How do you even know what your own needs are? What do you have to cut off in yourself in order to please others? I think the act of pleasing makes everything murky. We lose track of ourselves. We stop uttering declaratory sentences. We stop directing our lives. We wait to be rescued. We forget what we know. We make everything okay rather than real.

I am going to stop mainlining my life force / Into your self-esteem: / Air pump girl blowing up boy rubber ball / You can stay flat and go nowhere by yourself

Choose your own way. Do not follow me, or anyone else.

A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Fused relationships are extremely difficult to transform until (at least) one member is willing to differentiate.

No stranger can come battering down my door and say he brings me light. This I have within me. -Istak

Just because something had been expected of you didn't mean you had to expect it of yourself.

You don't liberate a country standing on the soil of another.

''You are born alone , complete your tasks as such ''

She took over the driving duties again, not trusting anyone else to get her to her destination. She was once again in control of her own destiny. "Almost there," Tiana whispered.

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.

Never, never, never, never hand over a single share of anything you have acquired or created if you can help it. Nothing. Not one share. To no one. No matter what the reason – unless you genuinely have to. Do

Do not seek a replica of yourself to delegate to, or to promote. Watch out for this, it is a common error with people setting out to build a company.

I have always felt to be true: that the greatest achievement in life is to work out the terms of one's own salvation, however one may define that term. "Free to make mistakes and be the master of one's own destiny,

music. To be an artist is not, finally, about product; it is about process, a way of being, and every solitary is of necessity an artist—an artist of her or his life, with little or no help from conventional rites and forms and mythologies, making it up as we go.

Trop se pencher sur eux, c'est la meilleure position pour recevoir un coup de pied au derrière. (p. 26)

Arrange-toi pour qu'ils aient toujours cette sensation de choix, hors de laquelle il n'est pas de bonne volonté possible. (p. 14)

No quiero apestar a orina de anciano. No quiero que me falte el aliento después de subir con dificultad media docena de escalones. No quiero que nadie me tenga que cortar las uñas de los pies porque no las