Quotes About Autonomy

I am allergic to almost every form of international agency, conference or committee.

I expect because I think I can handle life better on my own. Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious.

I despised even more the agglomeration of routines and learning algorithms that could burrow into my life, like a tropical river worm, and make choices on my behalf.

She's come to you this time of her own accord, and crossed our threshold of her own free will. May she always be free, just as she is today.

You seem to be under the impression that I work for you and you can give me orders. Let me fix that. I hung up.

Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.

My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.

Mr. Rogan," I frosted my voice over. "What I put into my body is my business." Okay, that didn't sound right.

I]f you continue to rely on others for that security, you will never find it. You're a Prime, a woman, and a mother. Make yourself secure. Take charge of yourself. My circlework my be shaky and crooked, by it's mine. I taught myself how to do it by studying books and now I'm using it. I didn't ask Rogan to draw it for me, because I didn't have to.

It's being handled. Your involvement isn't necessary. You're free to continue on your serial urination spree.

One look at Rebecca and Aunt B would have an instant apoplexy. Raphael's eyebrows furrowed. "My mother's approval isn't necessary." Aha. "Does she know that?

People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can't be free.

Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of 'Westernisation.'

All young men can relate to that moment where they have to - or, rather, attempt to - stand up to their dads with their own ideas of what they want for their own lives.

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.

Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

Don't do anything to upset the victimhood apple cart, because then young women may want to think for themselves, and the entire racket of feminism ran by women who butter their bread by playing Chicken Little to the subsequent generation would be penniless.

When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere. Which is how it should be.