Quotes About Autonomy

Leave women to find their sphere.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

I have a fiercely independent spirit.

If I'm on fire, don't spit on me. I won't spit on you. That's respect. You go your way, and I'll go mine.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

I'm spoiled. All of my adult jobs have left me with complete freedom to come up with what I wanted.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

I'm spoilt. I like my own space. I don't even own a microwave, and men don't like that. They want to be looked after.

I have never spoken for anyone but myself.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

To wait for someone else or to expect someone else to make my life richer or fuller or more satisfying puts me in a constant state of suspension.

My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.

I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

Marriage has just never interested me.

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

I will not marry again. There is no need.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.