Quotes About Autonomy

I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in their private treasury, but it was-I am certain-echoes of that idea that had been sounding in the chambers of my mind from the time we had arrived in Chicago. I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I'm a human being, a person - with parents and memories and a history - and I was before you ever wheeled me into that operating room!

Love without freedom does not exist.

While millions of miles have now been driven by test driverless cars, humans drive more than eight billion miles every day in the United States.

It is she who has enough confidence to define success and failure for herself who succeeds.

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

If you want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Live for yourself.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answer lie inside of you.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.

Your life is in your hands, make of it what you choose.

Today's a new day. It's your day. You shape it. Don't let it be shaped by someone else's ignorance or fear.

"The cat is there when you call her – if she doesn't have something better to do."

Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

In order to be free, we must learn how to let go.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.

Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.