Quotes About Autonomy

She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortable enough to help himself to something in her refrigerator, he was history. ... Filching leftover was simply too domestic for her to stomach. A man might as well say, "I'm hungry and I'm taking your food, woman." First he'd be foraging for food in the fridge, next he'd be expecting her to cook for him, replace buttons on his shirt, and give up her job to have babies that looked like him.

I made my money and can spend it as I want, just as you can spend the money you make as you want.

But a woman's right to leave a marriage can also be a lifesaver for men. The Centers on Disease Control reports that the rate at which husbands were killed by their wives fell by approximately two-thirds between 1981 and 1998, in part because women could more easily leave their partners.32

while other people can bring insight and support (and trouble and pain) into our lives, no-one can save us: we can only save ourselves.

Cooper took his hat off and swiped his forehead. Finally he spoke. "Well, Frank, to my mind, what a woman does or doesn't do should be up to the woman. She should be who she is, not what others expect her to be." It's her land. As far as I'm concerned she's the boss.

No woman should build her life waiting for a man to come along and save her. It's a tragic waste of brains and talent.

What's your plan to stay out of my bed?

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn't plan to ask for either one.

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

Control yourself and no one else. And you will see the Truth my brother.

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

Things just are the way they are... However, NOWHERE in ANY law, dogma, or rules is it mandated -be it sanctioned, decreed, or wrought by divine imposition- that ANY OF IT HAS TO BE THIS WAY!

"If a person is not willing to take responsibility for themselves, it does not excuse them from not taking responsibility when their bad choices affect others.

I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them.

Live like you want, not how others want you to live.