Quotes About Autonomy

I'd come, I realized, to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really—all that I'd done to myself and all that had been done to me. I couldn't do that while tagging along with someone else.

You are the agent of power in your sex life, even if what you want is to relinquish your power and agency while you're having sex. You can take that power back at any moment. Which means, of course, that you always had it.

I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life. I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me.

It didn't matter whether someone came along anyway. I was in this alone. I

You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself.

That we must help ourselves. That after destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives.

certain point we get to decide who it is we allow to influence us.

we must help ourselves. That after destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives. We can choose to fling our kids into the grass or we can take deep breaths and walk up and down the hall.

Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobodys damn business.

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

Judas. It's none of your business how other people spend their money.

They are not saviours, and it is unfair to expect them to be. It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.

High-class people have this concept called space, which means you cannot ask them questions or give them opinions about certain aspects of their life.

It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.

What's the point of getting people free only to put restrictions on them?

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

There is no success but your own success.

That teacher is most successful who makes herself progressively unnecessary to her pupils because she develops in them the power to do without her.

It's your body. Tell it what to do.

You can only trust yourself... and barely that.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you can get rid of him on weekends.

The two most empowering words in the English language are: I choose.