Quotes About Autonomy

But more women should be selfish," she said. "Or else the world will trample you.

More women should be selfish," she said. "Or else the world will trample you.

I was aware that she didn't belong to me. I didn't mean that, on paper at least, she was another's man's wife. If you knew her, you would know that she never belonged to him either. I'm not sure if she even realized it herself, but she's the kind of woman that will never belong to anyone.

Don't make your daughter feel like she got to lay with who you want her to lay with, like you're some kind of pimp.

Has not the country become independent? Be sure, though, that they will direct our affairs from afar. This is because they have left behind them people who think as they do.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

It is easier to crouch on your knees and be fed by government than it is to stand on your feet and find your own sustenance.

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.

The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.

Sabe, who had been listening to them, chided Kokwa. "It's not your place to judge Jijingi. The hare favors one food, the hippo favors another. Let each spend his time as he pleases.

What I'll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won't be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won't be someone I could have created by myself. —

This search is my purpose; not because you chose it for me, Lord, but because I chose it for myself. Amen.

Is it better for Marco to have his brain chemistry altered than for Ana to alter hers?

You are who you choose to be.

People resist being put into categories.

Nobody needs to control or be controlled by cues and signals all the time; living creatures are not a bunch of machines.

At a certain point you need to acknowledge that your partner knows more about what makes him or her happy than you do. Stepping back, you let that partner be.

wolf society has an organized structure but also has free will.

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

I found an inner strength to fight for myself. It was clear that nobody else would.

Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.

I don't like to talk about what other players think because, as we say in Spanish, every person is a world, their own world.