Quotes About Autonomy

What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan.

I wasn't steering anything, not even myself

The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters. Besides, those little shorthand symbols in the book my mother showed me seemed just as bad as let t equal time and let s equal the total distance.

You are a prisoner of sorts, and yet you have made yourself so.

Try to have a sense of 'I'; I = myself, as the center of my powers, as the creator of my world.

She never wanted Harry's relations or Harry's old friends; She never wanted to fit herself to Harry, But only to bring Harry down to her own level.

can one really believe if there is no freedom to disbelieve? What is the credit in having faith if you allow others and yourself no real choice at all?

If you wish to carry a hungry weasel in your pocket, it is your choice.

stupid people trying to manage me sends me into acute depression.

Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!

If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.

If thanks was what I wanted, Sandry replied in the same language, I would be sad indeed. Since I don't want it, I won't miss it.

Either I'm adult enough to have a medallion and a student and make my own stupid choices or I'm not.

no matter how we go about it, we are never poorer for the experiences that teach us how to write our own manuals.

Free of me, I was whole.

No man to lord, no child to hold.

Their life was aimless, that was, literally without aims. This was what living was about, they said. Not to join in, become imprisoned by rules and inhibitions. One should simply exist.

No one asks a robot what he wants.

Love can only be found in freedom of choice.

It is. And yet so few really are free. Nearly all people live in prisons of their own making, regardless of their faith, creed, sex or race.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." —Audre Lorde

I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.

No one can make up your mind for you, unless you make up your mind to let them.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.