Quotes About Autonomy

I say that there is no role for women - there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.

Live, David," he said softly. "Live your life." "I'm doing that," I grumbled. "No. You are letting Steelheart live your life for you. He controls it, each step of the way. Live your own life.

I want control," she said, opening her eyes. "Not like a king or anything. I just want to be able to control it, a little. My life. I don't want to get shoved around, by people or by fate or whatever. I just ... I want it to be me who chooses.

When you can't have both freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?" Elend was silent. "I make my own choice," he finally said. "And I leave the others to make their own as well.

Humans have free will. Free will is the ability to make irrational decisions.

Because they don't want to make choices anymore, he thought. Choices can be hard.

I'm not some tortured, abandoned creature, Wayne," Marasi said, finding herself smiling at her distorted reflection in a ladle. "I'm not sitting around pining and dreaming for someone else to decide if I should be happy. There's nothing there. Whether that's due to actual lack of affection on his part, or more to stubbornness, I don't care. I've moved on.

That is good. I should not like to be maintained by one who lacks brain functions.

You get to choose who you are.

You will be surprised how much more profitable an independent man is than a slave who thinks of nothing more than his next meal.

She'd built her life around not having to wait for anyone or anything.

comencé mi viaje solo y lo concluí solo. Pero eso no significa que caminara solo.

Your emotions are your own business.

If we can choose, we can change. If we can't change, then choice means nothing.

People generally don't know what they want, though they almost uniformly hate being told what it should be.

A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.

This isn't your prison. This is mine.

Happy is the people who need no heroes.

When we own our stories, we avoid being trapped as characters in stories someone else is telling.

It's dangerous to put your self-worth in other people's hands. Again, no matter what you do, you can't control other people's responses. These are recipes for disappointment and hurt.

Other people's emotions are not our jobs. We can't both serve people and try to control their feelings.

If there's no autonomy between people, then there's no compassion or empathy, just enmeshment.

Keep everyone at a safe distance and always have an exit strategy.

We fail the minute we let someone else define success for us