Quotes About Autonomy

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.

Every decision I make is determined solely by the spark and limitations of my own perspective

A man whose mother won't let him lift a finger is ruined for a wife." The

Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn't it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most....women are not free? They're not self-determining human beings?

I'm an old woman, your mother's an old woman, so I'll be an old woman, and I'll do what I please.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what you need done and let them surprise you

The Queen's children must allow her the right to self-destruct while exerting their right to protect themselves.

La récupération d'une image positive de nous ne passe pas seulement ni principalement par la récupération d'une image positive de nos fonctions "procréatives". Elle passe aussi et surtout par la capacité de nous définir autrement que par ces fonctions : par la récupération, comme spécifiques des femmes - c'est-à-dire partie aussi intégrante et définissante de nous-mêmes - de nos organes et fonctions non-procréatives.

L'abolition des rapports de production capitaliste en soi ne suffit pas à libérer les femmes ; [il faut] se constituer en force politique autonome.

Gratë bien në dashuri me burrat, që të matin frikën e tyre dhe pë të neutralizuar varësinë e tyre të supozuar ose faktike.

non-intervention was a deliberate strategy based on the notion that children shouldn't learn how to obey just because adults told them to. Teachers wanted kids to learn self-control for themselves. Even if this took time. "BELIEVE

Tudo bem, não encosto

Don't ever put your happiness in someone else's hands. They'll drop it. They'll drop it every time.

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

There is only one success: to be able to spend life in your own way and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

What does it say about the world we live in, if an adult man is told how and whom he should love?

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

the desire first to humiliate and then to eradicate those women who had demonstrated any kind of autonomy, but especially those who had actively participated in the military defence of the Republic (the milicianas).

those with the habit of line-crossing as a mode of being would never and could never fit the requirements of any state narrative.