Quotes About Autonomy

The woman was supposed to dance to his tune, and he was in no mood for music at the moment.

Do not fall in love with someone when that love is heavily dependent on the goodwill and kindness of your parents.

You're the only one who can decide what's best for you.

A man? If I need a man, wouldn't you think I'd have one of my own? Must I wait for you?

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.

She had carved out this space for herself, carved it, it sometimes felt, with her bare hands. She had made it small and unaccommodating by design. No one else fit. No room.

It is an ironic paradox: being dependent makes us more independent.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

We get off the guilt train by reminding ourselves that we are not responsible for other people's happiness.

No one can construct for you the bridge on which you must cross the stream of life, no one but you alone.

I distrust all systematisers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

It seemed that all her life she'd been seeking someone's approval: Father's, Grandmother's... hell, all of society's. Well, she was through. She hadn't asked for anything this time—not a blessed thing—but even that wasn't good enough.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

There's nothing better than being your own boss, especially after when you play soccer, you're just controlled by so many different forces. So owning your own company and being your own bosses, it's so liberating and freeing and you get to finally make decisions for yourself, which I think is really powerful.

As prime minister, I would relinquish to citizens as much of my social, political, and economic control as possible, leaving people to cultivate their own personal prosperity and to govern their own affairs as directly as possible.

I'm not a communist or social democrat or anything else. I'm a free man.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

We do not want socialism.

And one way that many women can feel like they're more protected is to be successful on their own, to be financially and socially independent, and that way they're not going to be relying on the will of men.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.