Quotes About Autonomy

Without awareness there is no freedom. Awareness is vital for any possibility of free choice.

Being your own light ensures that you will never need another to pull you out of darkness again.

There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself.

Do not seek to rule any man other than yourself.

In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.

People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside!

If you response to every demand, you will be in despair.

Be the person you are, not the one others try to create.

If I disagree with you sometimes, it's because I have a mind of my own.

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!

My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

You're not gonna tell me who I am. I'm gonna tell you who I am.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.

The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.