Quotes About Autonomy

If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it's time to get up and leave

It's bad when they don't treat you right... but it's tragic that you continue to allow it. Let today be the day you love yourself enough to say, NEVER AGAIN!

If he treats you a choice like A, B, C, and D, help him understand that YOU are not belong in the choices.

True love is built on free will and free choice, not control and manipulation.

If I wish to kiss you, I will. No priest, no father, and no god will stop me.

I am all things, I am not your words. I am defined by me.

Your heart is yours to give, it is no ones to take. Not a queen. Not a prince. No one.

I do not care if nobody resembles me.

Our ability to choose is sacred. It's what makes humans special.

Don't need to stand by me, I'm enough for myself.

Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people's opinions and/or expectations.

If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.

What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself.

Those of us who believe in freedom must believe also in the freedom of individuals to make their own mistakes. If a man knowingly prefers to live for today, to use his resources for current enjoyment, deliberately choosing a penurious old age, by what right do we prevent him from doing so?

The only person who can truly persuade you is yourself. You must turn the issues over in your mind at leisure, consider the many arguments, let them simmer, and after a long time turn your preferences into convictions.

My own days are unrestrained and unfettered. I am no longer ruled by the dictates of the Inoue School. I dance when I want. I dance how I want. And I dance where I want.

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

Tr?ie?te el, ca om, ca fiin?? total? - ?i nu se las? tr?it de ?esuturile lui, de glandele lui, de automatismele lui, ca noi to?i, ce?tilal?i...

The myth, like the novel, signifies primarily an autonomous act of creation by the mind.

I love man as my fellow; but his sceptre, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Yolandi, the central character in the book All My Puny Sorrows says that "the core of the argument for it [assisted suicide] is maximizing individual autonomy and minimizing human suffering" (p. 222).

None of us have ever asked the men for anything, Agata states. Not a single thing, not even for the salt to be passed, not even for a penny or a moment alone or to take the washing in or to open a curtain or to go easy on the small yearlings or to put your hand on the small of my back as I try, again, for the twelfth or thirteenth time, to push a baby out of my body. Isn't it interesting, she says, that the one and only request the women would make of the men would be to leave?

Isn't it interesting, she says, that the one and only request the women would make of the men would be to leave?

Ona stops laughing, barely. Do you think that's true, she asks, that it doesn't matter what you think? I blush. Maul my own head. She continues: How would you feel if in your entire lifetime it had never mattered what you thought?