Quotes About Autonomy

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

What I need to learn to do for myself. To write my own story.

Maybe we didn't need a father to complete ourselves.

Por entonces yo llevaba un tiempo con un ojo morado, souvenir de una pelea a puñetazos durante las vacaciones de verano. Ninguno de mis compañeros de trabajo me había preguntado nunca por ello, asi que supuse que uno podía hacer cualquier cosa en su vida privada con tal de que te dejara tantos moretones que nadie quisiera conocer los detalles.

Now she thinks to go at this all by herself: a rogue element.

The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.

Before you can truly submit, you must learn to control your reactions, your responses, your desires and your needs. Before you give yourself fully to another, you must first become the master of yourself." He

She thought about orgasming on command. How was that even possible? You came when your body was ready to come, not when someone else told you to.

I am not... your Sakura

I said it before-the only one who can decide is the person herself. I did all I could. From here on out, it's up to her.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

It would seem, from this, that the people of Omanorion had mastered the ultra-civilized art of minding their own business.

With few exceptions, the only instances in which mainstream firms have successfully established a timely position in a disruptive technology were those in which the firms' managers set up an autonomous organization charged with building a new and independent business around the disruptive technology.

Culture is a way of working together toward common goals that have been followed so frequently and so successfully that people don't even think about trying to do things another way. If a culture has formed, people will autonomously do what they need to do to be successful. Those

But instead of telling him what to think, I taught him how to think. He then reached a bold decision about what to do, on his own.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.

We have only one real shot at liberation, and that is to emancipate ourselves from within

It began in 1784, when people in the western territories of North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) became disgusted with Tidewater control. Their solution was pure Borderlander: they created their own sovereign State of Franklin on nobody's permission but their own. They drafted a constitution that prohibited lawyers, clergy, and doctors from running for office, set up a government in the village of Greeneville, and passed laws making apple brandy, animal skins, and tobacco legal tender.

And what else but a being cursed with the burden of free will would wear a poncho.

You have to have an inside you, she used to say, and an outside you. Ain't nobody's business who you are really, so it's up to you what you gave them.

Liberty make a body fertile," Georgina said. That, and the knowledge they will not be sold, Cora added.

I suppose one finally learns, after much searching, that we really only belong to ourselves.

The thing about the Occupation is that it never let you decide. It took away your ability for choice. Banish it and choice would appear.