Quotes About Autonomy

People decide how to live their own lives! A scum bastard doesn't have the right to chain anyone down!" -Sven to Torneo

Eve: I don't understand this word..."Freedom." Does it mean...I do what I want? Sven: Yes. Eve: Then I wouldn't have to kill anymore? Sven: No more killing.

This isn't a story about how some guy finally saves me from myself. I'm my own hero here; I do the saving.

Life refused to be controlled.

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In the bowels of the flush toilet we see the archetype for all autonomous mechanical creatures

Money equals freedom.

If I can't find something on this plate to eat, that's my fault," she replied.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

No, I'm not choosing him or you. I'm choosing me.

in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story. She still did not—and yet she regarded herself in the glass a little ruefully. To have that choice removed by time and age was painful.

When I loved myself enough, I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe.

I find it hard to believe that a genuine spiritual master will tell me what to do when such a master should know that I will grow only by making my own decisions. For some people I have met, having a cosmic being give them personal instructions gives them a clear sense of being validated by the highest authority.

In contrast, solid self-esteem depends on nothing outside the self.

I never loved anyone so much that I thought it would last. In fact, I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. (Susan B. Anthony being interviewed by Nellie Bly)

Ada, please," she said, looking up, "I am not on exhibit in a zoo.

If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm.

Better than being slave to a man who has no regard for me other than a broodmare for his children. (Rowena) True. I should hate to be a broodmare for a man. (Stryder)

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, one cannot do without in life. All wants are dispensable as long as one can absent oneself.

It's a pity so few of us are allowed to chose thectime and manner of our death

Sometimes command means letting those under you do their jobs

Sometimes command means letting those under you do their jobd

Sometimes command means letting those under you do their job

Power is never taken from us. It is only given away," Austen said softly.