Quotes About Autonomy

We want our children to have a childhood that's magical and enriched, but I'll bet that your best childhood memories involve something you were thrilled to do by yourself. These are childhood's magic words: "I did it myself!

We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying to teach our children how to get along in the world, and that we believe this is our job. A child who can fend for himself is a lot safer than one forever coddled, because the coddled child will not have Mom or Dad around all the time, even though they act as if he will.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

In the end you have only you.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

??çi, kuramsal olarak, istedi?ini yapabilen "özgür" bir ki?idir. Oysa gerçekte, i?çinin özgürlü?ü iyice s?n?rl?d?r. ??verenin ileri sürdü?ü ezici ko?ullar? kabul etmek ya da açl??? seçmek aras?nda özgürdür.

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.

For the first time it was up to me to do some real hunting instead of waiting and reacting to what other people chose to do.

because blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

Owen is Owen. No one gets to tell him how to live his life. Not you, not me, and not some author nobody. Owen gets to choose how his life story goes, and no one, let alone his idiot fictional self, gets to take that away from him.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

I won't be listed and labeled or tabbed and tagged, said Clode. If I want a book, I'll get a book.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

She was stronger alone…

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others—of resigning my own judgement in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect.

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her better for it.

Sólo estoy dispuesta a proceder de la manera que considere más apropiada para mi felicidad, sin tener en cuenta lo que piense usted ni ningún otro.