Quotes About Autonomy

He was singing a song he had composed entirely without professional assistance.

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

I hear myself saying these words: What this movement is about is options. I say it to friends who are frustrated, or housebound, or guilty, or child-laden, and what I'm really thinking is, If you really got it together, the option you would choose is mine.

Otra cosa buena del divorcio es que saca a la luz algo que con el matrimonio permanece oculto, y es que estás sola. No hay una lucha de poder para ver quién de los dos se levanta a medianoche; te levantas tú.

I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for. People say they know what's best for you. Maybe sometimes it's true. But it doesn't matter if they keep pushing until they take your choices away.

As long as there's choice, the end is never set.

He does as he pleases and no more. He's the most successful man I know.

We are eating like adults. Kids have to eat when and what they're told. We get to eat when and what we want. Because we're adults.

I am what I am and I can't change it. I know how to cope and how to get by. I don't want or expect anyone to stand with me. I don't need anyone to. I've learned to accept my life just the way it is, and I don't give a damn if you or anyone else doesn't.

Men like him were so used to getting their own way with a quick smile, a murmured word, they didn't know how to act with a woman who stood firmly on her own feet.

Lived their lives as they chose to live. That's a real victory, don't you think, living as you choose to live?

Look, pal, he who goes to the store buys what he damn well pleases. That's a new rule around here.

she didn't want to date anyone. A relationship, if indeed she decided to cultivate one, was three years down the road. Minimum. She would never make the mistake... [to] depend on someone else for emotional and financial support. First, she would make certain she was solvent, solid, and secure. And then, if and when she chose, she would think about sharing her life.

When you take what isn't offered freely, you have nothing.

That's true." And children, she thought, no matter how hard they strained for independence, were stuck. "It won't be long before you can decide for yourself. L.A., right?

She was a grown woman, capable of making her own decisions. She wasn't stupid and she wasn't helpless.

I hope they're smarter than that," Roarke said. "They made a choice, for a child they didn't even know. If that child made choices as a man, it's on him. What we do with our lives always is.

People like to say they've given somebody a choice when what they're really saying is 'do this my way.

You only have to be alone when you want to be alone.

Blood didn't tell. DNA didn't make us. We made ourselves, if we had any guts we made ourselves.

when she should have known it was something she had to find for herself.

It was a concept that dazzled her. Doing what she wanted when she wanted, at her own pace and in her own way.

Put something on, Tyler ordered. And lock the doors. I'll check it out. No, you won't. She was already marching to her closet. We'll check it out. Nobody pushes me around, she said as she dragged on a sweater and pants. Nobody.

Thanking someone for where your life ended up is the same as blaming them for it. We're all responsible for ourselves.