Quotes About Autonomy

Denying women the right to end a pregnancy is the flip side of punishing women for conduct during pregnancy, and even if not punishing, monitoring. In the spring of 2014 a law was proposed in the Kansas state legislature that would require doctors to report every miscarriage, no matter how early in pregnancy.

Denying women the right to end a pregnancy is the flip side of punishing women for conduct during pregnancy, and even if not punishing, monitoring.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

If motherhood doesn't interest you, don't do it. It didn't interest me, so I didn't do it. Anyway, I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

As one goes through in life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased".

two people who are used to having their own way should stay separate

Also, I was not in the business of capturing anyone into a marriage. I just did not want to marry anyone. I liked the idea of being my own self. Even when I was living with Spencer Tracy and he and I were together for twenty-seven years, we never really thought about or discussed marriage. He was married and I wasn't interested.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.

The freedom of the man of God has nothing to do with autonomy … and … does not stand opposed to submission to God

Authority ... cannot be a darksome power that compels us to subject ourselves without reason.

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Ho sempre voluto farcela da solo, con i miei sforzi, senza chiedere nulla a nessuno.

Freedom also has the potential to annihilate because it is limitless.

As if all of us existed only in the bondage of the will From inside each autonomy grows the light of grace; when it is not murderous; as if the Graces existed, were alive, in their ambiguity, their infinite delicacy . . .

Kafas?n? hiçbir zaman lügate e?memi? biriyle ne yapabilirsiniz ki?

A man has the right to be stupid on his own account, but not on behalf of others.