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Quotes About Autonomy

Women need men like fish need bicycles.
~ Irina Dunn
I think of the women I know, and very few of them are obsessed with shopping, or with getting a guy - they want their own thing, they have their own network going on.
~ Irvine Welsh
I thought that's what happened to women: You live alone when you're old.
~ Jen Kirkman
Not everyone is there to get an abortion. Your body is like a car that has needs and women's bodies constantly need a level of care that men don't.
~ Jen Kirkman
Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.
~ Jennifer Weiner
I want women to be the subject, not the object.
~ Jill Soloway
Women alone always order sole. It means something.
~ John Dos Passos
The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.
~ Julianna Baggott
I consider myself to be a very strong, independent woman.
~ Julie Gonzalo
Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.
~ Karen Kijewski
Choices in life are not and should not be determined by our life circumstances.
~ Karni Liddell
For women especially, its important to be financially independent.
~ Karrine Steffans
I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.
~ Katherine Heigl
There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children
~ Kathleen Turner
The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.
~ Kathleen Turner
Other people do not owe me their availability.
~ Laura Schlessinger
I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please.
~ Laura Vandervoort
The way in which you share your body must be a CHOICE. Support these women and do not look at these pictures.
~ Lena Dunham
I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
~ Madeleine Albright
Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.
~ Margaret Sanger
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.
~ Margaret Sanger
She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.
~ Margaret Sanger