Quotes About Autonomy

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.

I'm a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Self-reliance is very excellent, but as for independence, there is no such thing.

The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman's life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.

We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. That, in fact, she has a constitutional right to make that decision for herself and that the state has shown no interest in interfering with that decision.

I am heartbroken for people around this country who just lost the fundamental right to make informed decisions about their own bodies... This is what our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers lived through, and now here we are again.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

Their issues are not your issues.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else. — Kwame Nkrumah

It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it.

I'm not putting up with this, she continued. You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done? Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.

I have to say you don't look anything like a policewoman. Maxia's perfect eyebrows arched as she gave Eve's dress a quick scan. Leonardo dresses you, doesn't he? No, I usually do it myself.

After they left the office, Peabody shoved her hands in her pockets. These nicknames are pissing me off. But you're not I'm-Too-Good-to-Pee-Body. Harris is. It's my damn name. And now I have to pee. It's like my bladder has to prove something. Pee at the bank. Consider it a deposit.

It's a mistake to be too much one of your own as they'll never see you as fully in charge.

Listen, pal, I come and go as I please, so check your ego.

What the hell does it matter who I am or who I'm with?

Das Rechtschreibprogramm kann nicht denken [...]. Wenn Sie es dem Rechtschreibprogramm überlassen, über ihr Leben zu bestimmen, dann könnten Sie auch gleich würfeln.

I choose rather to tell of the island, of myself and Cruso and Friday and what we three did there: for I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story according to her own desire.

The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time, in another place it might be held to be a public matter. But in this place, in this time, it is not. It is my bussines, mine alone. 'This place being what?' 'This place being South Africa

Creía que la historia de nuestra vida es nuestra para edificarla como deseemos, dentro de las restricciones impuestas por el mundo real e incluso contra ellas

People don't divide themselves on important and unimportant... I have my own life, important to me equally as is yours to you, and in my life I the one who decides.

Esta es mi vida. Soy yo quien ha de vivir aquí. Lo que a mí me pase es asunto mío, solamente mío, no tuyo

y si tengo algún derecho es el derecho a que no me juzgues de este modo, a no tener que justificarme: ni ante ti ni ante nadie.