Quotes About Autonomy

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

It just goes to show that our children are not carbon copies of us, even if we imagine that is how they will turn out. They have their own souls; they choose their own paths.

just goes to show that our children are not carbon copies of us, even if we imagine that is how they will turn out. They have their own souls; they choose their own paths.

You have my permission to be completely free." She wondered if he said that to every woman he brought on board. "I don't need your permission to be free.

Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.

If I was alone I'd find something to do. Read or work on homework or doodle, fake it, so if I was alone it'd look like I wanted to be alone.

All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man's sword.

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything?

The efforts of Roberts and others eventually gave rise to the independent living movement to enable all individuals with disabilities to live as independently as possible.32

Marriage could be a partnership, not a life sentence where the woman's identify is ripped away the first day.

The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

Soy yo, soy él. Somos, pero soy yo, primeramente soy yo, defenderé ser yo hasta que no pueda más.

Against psychoanalysis we should oppose the ideal of an ego which does not abdicate, and which intends to remain conscious, autonomous, and sovereign in the face of the nocturnal and subterranean part of his soul and the demonic character of sexuality. This ego does not feel either 'repressed' or psychotically torn apart, but achieves an equilibrium of all his faculties ordered in accordance with a higher significance of living and acting.

Las "libertades políticas" no son nada sin las libertades o la autonomia económica, sea en el terreno individual, o en el colectivo. En este último, porque en régimen democrático son los grupos en posesión de riqueza quienes controlan la prensa y todos los demás medios de formación de la "opinión pública" y de la propaganda.

Todo en la civilización moderna tiende a sofocar el sentimiento heroico de la vida. Todo tiende a la mecanización, al aburguesamiento, a la nivelación resuelta y prudente, a la fabricación de seres presos de sus necesidades y privados de toda autonomía

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.

If I know from the start that I'm going to be alone, I'm not lonely. It doesn't bother me.

I might have no one in the world, but at least I'm free.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Sometimes, Carter told her, you got to let a garden tend itself.

He has to come to it on his own.