Quotes About Autonomy

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

If you don't want them, I can find someone else who would." And then, as though shocked, as though she heard the echo of those words, the implications reverberated inside herself. She could find someone else.

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

If a man exists who is immune to force, even if he's the most blameless anchorite living on top of a column in the middle of the desert, he is beyond government, beyond authority, and cannot be controlled; and that would be intolerable.

Fine," I said. "Go back to the Dogs and wash some dishes." She left without a word.

Being free always involves being lonely.

Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.

Mad things could be quite normal, so long as you were doing them yourself. Watching someone else doing them, you wrinkled your nose, turned around quickly, and walked away.

As an independent woman, you are not defined by your partners or your parents. You are defined by you. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow.

Raise your daughter so she is not a damsel in distress. Raise her so she can be the one saving herself. - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA

Have your own opinions, stand up for your own beliefs. You have your own brain, so use it. - Kailin Gow

I'm telling you that my happiness isn't up to you.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

If you can't cope with that, then that's your problem, not mine.", Summer Jones in Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

awful freedom of someone with no one to answer to.

To depend on the protection of another man is to be his slave, to protect other folk is to be the slave of your own emotions.

Using others is a sin. Why should I wish to use another?

We are slaves to ourselves. And we think that we are free. The greatest freedom that we have is the freedom to walk away from ourselves.

I get the team set up good and then I'll let them do their thing. At the end of the day, if you put the time and effort into interviewing and finding the right people for a job, you've got to let them do that job.

I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.

Boney M. were not allowed to do interviews, they were not allowed to choose their costumes. They looked like slaves, and this was the producer's take.

I try to stay away from forced intimacy.

I've never been that girl who has to be in a relationship. My job has given me such a big, full life and, while I know it's not quite the same as having an intimate relationship, I do have a lot of friends and family.

I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity... they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.

Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.