Quotes About Autonomy

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself. No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.

To be alive was to accept that your were fundamentally alone.

Besides, I did not require heroism--I had been the hero of my own life for some time.

No, I've been doing this myself forever. I could have gone in here myself, but my daddy doesn't want me to get raped. That happens all the time in bathrooms.

Never use someone else's engine, if you can help it," Dov warned. "You cede too much power to them.

To be alive was to accept that you were fundamentally alone.

We had so much freedom—creatively, technically. No one was watching us, and we weren't even watching ourselves. What we had was our impossibly high standards, and your completely theoretical conviction that we could make a great game.

A woman should never please other people at the expense of pleasing herself.

What is feminism from my point of view as a woman and as a human being?" Who fucking cares? you thought. "It's the right every woman has to make her own choices. People don't have to like your choices, Aviva, but you have a right to make them. Embeth Levin has a right to make them, too. Don't expect a parade." You

What is feminism from my point of view as a woman and as a human being?" Who fucking cares? you thought. "It's the right every woman has to make her own choices. People don't have to like your choices

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself. No

But as much as I complained about my solitude, I also required it. I put a high price on my freedom from obligation, of having to report to no one.

No, I won't marry you. I won't do it. No one can force me.

the reason you give your body is what makes it right or makes it shameful, and only you can decide that.

A real man has no need of governments, of laws, of moral or ethical codes, to say nothing of battleships, police clubs, high-powered bombers and such things."76

Along the way, we discover that we are alone. We no longer have to ask permission because we are the providers of our own safety….There is grieving to be done because an old self is dying. By taking in our suppressed and even our unwanted parts, we prepare at the gut level for the reintegration of an identity that is ours and ours alone – not some artificial form put together to please the culture or our mates.

And even as one part of us seeks the freedom to be an individual, another part is always searching for someone or something to surrender our freedom to.

You can't take everything with you when you leave on the midlife journey. You are moving away. Away from institutional claims and other people's agenda. Away from external valuations and accreditations, in search of an inner validation. You are moving out of roles and into the self.

All my life, I've had well-meaning guys hovering over me, protecting me when I didn't need or want it. Enough with the well-meaning guys. They want to keep an eye on me? I'll send their eyes back blackened.

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.

Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.