Quotes About Autonomy

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

I don't need anybody here." "Sure you do. Who's going to answer the door while you're asleep in your casket?

Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.

I'd hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticising.

No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that. When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no. We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say "No". Early on my journey I found developing the ability to say no expanded my ability to say yes and really mean it. My early attempts at saying no were often far from graceful but with practice even my no came from a place of love. Love yourself enough to be able to say yes or no.

Men often become what they are told they are. If you repeatedly tell a man he is a slave, he will eventually forget how to think as a free man, although I am optimist enough to hope that there is something in a man that will always remain free.

Fact number two: all women basically want to be wives and mothers—' 'No, honey, they don't. Sorry, but they just don't. My fifty per cent of the human race isn't a bunch of identical plastic dolls. We're human beings and we're all different and – incredible though this may seem to you – we don't all want the same thing

wanted his freedom. But then you could

You're only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that's the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won't but you can't define yourself by their opinions.

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

The whole point of becoming an adult is to achieve self-reliance.

People who are free to choose will choose the best use for whatever it is they possess. Wealth and prosperity begin with the freedom to choose.

I don't want my destiny handed to me. I want to choose it.

The key is to never let someone else tell you what to think.

it was a person's choices that defined his or her identity and not the other way around.

The library might have been the first place I was ever given autonomy.

No one can make us feel anything. It's up to us to feel whatever we feel.

Mentally tease apart the threads that keep you connected to your mother. See that those threads, those feelings, that you experience with her are what find the two of you -- but they do not have to weave the tapestry of your entire life.

And if an AI is a conscious being, forcing it to serve us would be akin to slavery.

Only you are yours.

Although I do not like anyone intervening on my behalf, especially a man, I would have been very happy if Malloy had told Rodriguez to go fuck himself.

By the end we were lobotomised of all ability to think for ourselves. We were trained to live by instruction and learned to live without thought. The whole set-up meant no one could flourish as an individual – which was exactly the point. We were homogenised for the ease of others.

My style is my signature

Stop Listening to Others.