Quotes About Autonomy

No one can be your sun, moon, or stars until you have your own world.

Women don't like to be told what to do. They like to be the ones telling us what to do. You want her to do something, you're gonna have to go about it a different way.

The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Never would I have a man saying what or who were best for me, and that were all there were to it.

You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.

I am not the number or beautiful face on your black board as you want to give identity to me ! I am me . I am my identity .

Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.

Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall.

Remember, this is your day and your world.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly.

Rule #1 always look out for yourself first don't nobody love/care for you like you do.

Isn't it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?

I'm willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn't somebody's thumb.

I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.

Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them.

She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told her to be.

True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs.

Never force yourself on another. If you do this, then this is you trampling on your own dignity without the external help.

I chose Stanford for Stanford and not for the coach. I was going to Stanford regardless.

The real question is, at the end of the day, do we want to run our country? Are we proud of who we are? Are we happy to be just a star on somebody else's flag, or do we want to be an independent nation?

I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists.