Quotes About Autonomy

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

One way to hold a woman is not to hold her.

I am running the show. Everyone is waiting for me. I decide. I know this now.

Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me.

down different roads. But each of you gets to decide

Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

If I stay. If I live. It's up to me.

There are so many ways to live, to define what living means for you and you alone.

I think any personality fits this role (developer advocate), but I would classify the ideal person as someone who is able to create things without anybody telling them what to do. I think that is crucial. - Bruno Borges

If I was not able to control my social world I could at least begin to coordinate the movement of my own body.

Are you living your parents' dream...or your own?

I remind myself that I'm no longer a damsel in distress. I can think this through. What I can't do? Base my decision on fear. Because, while I might be free to make my choice right now, I'll never be free from the consequences of that choice

Voglio una stanza tutta per me.» «No.» «No e basta?» «Esatto: tu resti qui.» Le parole con me non vennero pronunciate, ma erano sottintese. «Non ho vissuto a lungo a Budapest e non ho passato molto tempo in questa camera, ma è mia.» Come lo sei tu. Anche questo era sottinteso.

I have zero desire to be tossed around like some kind of meat bag just because I have possession of a ball anyone can buy at any sporting-goods store for less than twenty dollars.

developers should be able to understand and update the code of a service without knowing anything about the internals of its peer services. Services

Done poorly, Conway's Law will prevent teams from working safely and independently; instead, they will be tightly-coupled together, all waiting on each other for work to be done, with even small changes creating potentially global, catastrophic consequences.

I need you to say no! We cannot afford to have this leadership team be order takers. We pay you to think, not just

I'm now as free as the breeze — with roughly the same income.

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

When we give up dieting, we take back something we were often too young to know we had given away: our own voice. Our ability to make decisions about what to eat and when. Our belief in ourselves. Our right to decide what goes into our mouths. Unlike the diets that appear monthly in magazines or the thermal pants that sweat off pounds, unlike a lover or a friend or a car, your body is reliable. It doesn't go away, get lost, stolen. If you will listen, it will speak.

Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.

Redefining oneself is something we all have to do ... The only person who could ever set bounds on you should be yourself.

The only person who can ever set bounds on you should be yourself.

We are all born with the ability to make our own choices. But once you make the wrong choice, other people make your decisions for you. 18.