Quotes About Autonomy

The only thing that had ever done me any good in my father's house was thinking: no one had cared what I wanted, or whether I was happy. I'd had to find my own way to anything I wanted. I'd never been grateful for that before now, when what I wanted was my life.

I couldn't be his savior; I had enough to do saving myself.

I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

No one had cared what I wanted, or whether I was happy. I'd had to find my own way to anything I wanted. I'd never been grateful for that before now, when what I wanted was my life.

The real issue has nothing to do with whether women wear makeup or don't, gain weight or lose it, have surgery or shun it, dress up or down, make our clothing and faces and bodies into works of art or ignore adornment altogether. The real problem is our lack of choice.

The idea that a woman's body has boundaries that must not be violated is fairly new. We evidently haven't taken it far enough. Can we extend that idea? Or are women the pliable sex, innately dapted to being shaped, cut, and subjected to physical invasion? Does the female body deserve the same notion of integrity as the male body?

We were free people. None of these officials actually were supposed to control us. But few seemed to realize that.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own.

Depending on your sales manager for prospects.

really did not sell to him. He purchased of his own accord.

Each man is different. Each man must follow his own path. Each man is the same. Each man must follow his own path.

All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's not on the curriculum.

Lo que tiene que hacer usted es empezar a evitar que los demás le escriban el diálogo. Use la cabeza que Dios le ha plantado sobre las cervicales y hágase usted mismo el libreto.

Las personas eran como los títeres o los juguetes de cuerda, tenían todas un resorte oculto que permitía mover sus hilos y hacerlas correr en la dirección que uno deseaba.

One has to make one's own mistakes, not other people's. Do what you have to do and come back soon. Or whenever you can.

Što ?e ti sva geografija, trigonometrija i aritmetika svijeta ako ne nau?iš misliti svojom glavom? To te ne nau?e ni u jednoj školi. Nije u programu.

Uno tiene que cometer sus propios errores, no los de los demás.

Erikson felt that the early childhood years were critical in children's development of trust, autonomy

Routine is liberating, it makes you feel in control.

Perhaps the most dangerous thing on Earth is the person who always follows. What if you follow the wrong person? The wrong Idea?

Lark did not know how her parents would behave in public. They never came to anything, even teacher conferences. They had basically skipped Lark's life. She didn't mind. She had made her own.