Quotes About Autonomy

What I think I should do is more important to me than what you think I should do. But that doesn't mean your opinion has no value to me at all.

But some people don't want you to do what you think is right. Some people want you to do what they think is right. Anyway,

What I think I should do is more important to me than what you think

I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.

I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too.

It's different. When you make a house good and strong because it's your house, a place you made, a place you're proud of, it's not at all the same as making it glow for someone who ordered you to do it.

You are not the chosen one, September. Fairyland did not choose you – you chose yourself.

Mira, he supposed, had always lived in her own head and allowed others to visit once in a while. With advance notice. And extensive decontamination protocols.

You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.

People are clocks who think they wind themselves.

Thing is, just because you make a body shiver don't make it yours.

No one is a cup for another to drink from.

I'm gonna be good at something other than marrying, darlings. Besides, I don't want them. I don't even wanna screw them, how am I gonna marry them?

I wouldn't even consider it if I were you. But then if I were you, I would not be me, and if I were not me, I would not be able to advise you, and if I were unable to advise you, you'd do as you like, so you might as well do as you like and have done with it.

I am not a doormat. I get to decide what I will or won't do in this life, nobody else, and, no matter how cute Marley Hayes might be, he doesn't get to boss me around. (Lexie)

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

You always have choices, my dear. Always. Never forget that.

Subtly, she was telling him that she had her own life, her own business. An independent woman could always leave.

Self-learning has bloomed;

He didn't ask you for your opinion on what he was doing as far as a break—he was telling you what he needed," Emily reminded her. "So you don't get to decide that he has to talk to you now. He walked away. When he's ready, then he can always come back and talk to you.

I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.

Women without their own drivers could get around only at the whim of husbands and sons. Some

Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my home—it is not much, I grant, yet sufficient for my shelter. But more than these, I have something very few women can claim: my freedom. I will not lightly surrender it.

The point of an organi family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being extensions of their parents so that they can belong primarily to themselves. They may accept the services that adults perform for them naturally without establishing dependencies.