Quotes About Autonomy

No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

I am not in so great a hurry to put my neck beneath any man's foot; and I do not so greatly admire the crying of babies

I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.

A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

But I don't imagine I exist to enhance your sense of superiority.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.

We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself." It's true that when you summon the

So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

Sizin saç?n?z?n k?rm?z?s? doÄŸuÅŸtan, benimki ise kendi karar?m dedim hemen an?nda.

A person should love the life he has chosen enough to call it his own in the end.

I thought: I am most completely myself when nobody's watching. I had only just begun to discover this truth. When there is no one to observe us, the other self we keep hidden inside can come out and do as it pleases. But when you have a father near enough to keep an eye on you, that second self remains buried within.

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

No one with him to tell him he must eat, he must go practice, he must sleep. Freedom. The trouble was, he didn't know what to do.

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.