Quotes About Autonomy

Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.

The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. 'That's your course, world,' one says, 'mine is this.

W]e cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we become deserters. They march to battle. We float with the sticks on the stream; helter-skelter with the dead leaves on the lawn, irresponsible and disinterested and able, perhaps for the first time for years, to look round, to look up—to look, for example, at the sky.

And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought Clarissa, watching him open the door; for one would not part with it oneself, or take it, against his will, from one's husband, without losing one's independence, one's self-respect—something, after all, priceless.

I am what I am, and intend to be it,' for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself.

She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

It is much more important to be oneself than anything else.

I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me

I am not a woman, but the light that falls on this gate, on this ground. I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. I cannot be tossed about, or float gently, or mix with other people.

I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass. Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Clarissa said she would buy the flowers herself.

She liked to be alone; she liked to be herself

Untuk menikmati kebebasan kita harus mengendalikan diri sendiri.

I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted.

That is it. Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

You are you. That is what consoles me for the lack of many things.

He went on saying No to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex.

Yes, but I still resent the usual order. I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things. I will walk; I will not change the rhythm of my mind by stopping, by looking; I will walk.

Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.

Wicca puts the responsibility for running our lives back where it belongs – in our own hands.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a Base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled.

To the Winds, Victor was a problem child insofar as he refused to be one.