Quotes About Autonomy

We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.

I [Topsy] 'spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody never made me.

It's a free country, sir; the man's mine, and I do what I please with him,—that's it!

If it comes to that, I can earn myself at least six feet of free soil.

It's a free country, sir; the man's mine, and I do

When we do not put our primary emotional energy into solving our own problems, we take on other people's problems as our own.

My father chose to have relationships at the expense of having a self, a pattern that began long before he met and married Rose.

We can operate from a solid position of self, even when the other person won't speak to us at all.

how we may be too responsible for another person and, at the same time, not responsible enough for our own behavior.

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At the simplest level, "being a self" means we can be pretty much who we are in relationships rather than what others wish, need, and expect us to be. It also means we can allow others to do the same. It means we do not participate in relationships at the expense of the "I".

Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.

The right of privacy… is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

You can't control the natures of other people, but you can control how you'll deal with them. And you can also control the extent and manner in which you'll be involved with them.

You'll know that whatever happens isn't your problem because you no longer have the responsibility to see that others do what they should.

If a relationship is structured so that each person has his own area of responsibility over which he has complete control, most of the typical headaches of business can be eliminated.

It's just as unrealistic to merge your property as it is to try to merge your minds. And  property  is  very  important.  The  control  of  your  own  property  is  the  most tangible expression of your freedom.

Freedom from exploitation is perhaps the easiest freedom to get. All you have to do is to stop participating in any relationship — of any kind — that doesn't suit you. It

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

And when someone accuses you of being selfish, just remember that he's upset only because you aren't doing what he selfishly wants you to do.

To be self-reliant is to recognize that no one else is as concerned about your future as you are and that no one knows as much about you as you do.