Quotes About Autonomy

You can't please everybody, man.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

Slowly you become your own man.

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.

At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone.

When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.

Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.

I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.

I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.

I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!

No man is competent to manage another.

But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?