Quotes About Autonomy

A woman who is herself only a sexual object, lives finally in a world of objects, unable to touch in others the individual identity she lacks herself.

It seemed to mean doing something, being somebody yourself, not just existing in and through others.

The problem is always being the children's mommy, or the minister's wife and never being myself.

If you live your life to please everyone else, you will continue to feel frustrated and powerless. This is because what others want may not be good for you. You are not being mean when you say NO to unreasonable demands or when you express your ideas, feelings, and opinions, even if they differ from those of others.

Indeed, if not told to live -- if not given some kind of active instruction from another cell -- cells automatically kill themselves. Cells need a lot of reassurance.

The idea of personal space, which seems so natural to us now, was a revelation. People couldn't get enough of it. Soon it wasn't merely sufficient to live apart from one's inferiors; one had to have time apart from one's equals, too.

The Power of One is a slogan--not a goal.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Don't follow leaders.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I don't expect politicians to solve anybody's problems. We've got to take the world by the horns and solve our own problems. The world owes us nothing, each and every one of us, the world owes us not one single thing. Politicians or whoever.

Don't forget, I am above the law [to Michael Hutchence]

That's your business and your past," Kane said. "A person's past is their own to share or not share.

I guess you're right," Trump said several times. "We could do that." But then he ignored most reviews or vetting and did what he wanted.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

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