Quotes About Autonomy

Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.

The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.

I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn't make certain choices for ourselves.

…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.