Quotes About Autonomy

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.

Feminism means that we all seek to live fulfilled lives, whatever that means for each of us, and we should have the equal ability to do that. Nothing should limit us simply because we're women.

Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.

A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.

... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

I've never had an abortion. And I don't know if I would. But, it doesn't mean that I wouldn't fight to the death for women to make their own choices for their own human bodies.

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.

Everybody's problem is not yours, regardless of marriage and relationships, and I think women sometimes have to shed "what we think it should be" and address "what it is".

We should let women make their own decisions.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.

You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.

Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.

It's easy to make me laugh, you can make me laugh, anyone can make me laugh, but that certainly does not mean you can make me do anything.

She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?