Quotes About Autonomy

Claiming our voice, and our selfhood, is a sacred act.

Your vagina is not a democracy. No one else gets a vote on what you do with it.

Dolly is both Cinderella and her fairy godmother, and she has no need for a Prince Charming.

If you wish to be truly free, you must love no one.

I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I've thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.

she was herself entire, and knew she could not be consumed.

The Soul Selects Her Own Society (Chapter 12 title)

I was on my out and they thought they were helping me; instead they turned motion and intellible speech into a currency with which personhood is earned.

it's a free country, a woman can drink-garden if she wants to…

The way we license people and register vehicles will become obsolete soon. We will need to design a new system that is based on autonomous tech, safer cars and more streamlined infrastructure.

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.

Låt inte någon välja ut dina syndabockar. Det är din sak. Om den skulle sammanfalla med någon annans syndabock, dussintals eller fler, byt bock. Den kan inte vara din.

Helmer: First and foremost, you are a wife and mother.Nora: That I don't believe any more. I believe that first and foremost I am an individual, just as much as you are.

What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.