Quotes About Autonomy

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.

Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.

I do what I do and you do what you can do about it.

You worry about yours, let them worry about theirs, cause I got mine.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

To me, 'sexual freedom' means freedom from having to have sex.

It seems this time being a grass widow has been good for you; this temporary emancipation from my domination is allowing you to develop your own identity.

nothing the western nations can do can stop her or keep her down.

A general government shall do all those things which pertain to it, and all the local governments shall do precisely as they please in respect to those matters which exclusively concern them.

Each man shall do precisely as he pleases with himself, and with all those things which exclusively concern him.

With a stranger's hands, you can tie a string around a cat's neck." In other words: If you care about the results, do it yourself.

The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy. The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs finds voice.

One of the most important things to learn in life and love is that I can be responsible only for what I can control. While I can't control my husband (or anyone else), I can control me.

If we haven't chosen what we are living for, we're living life by default, acting out the scripts handed to us by family, other people's agendas, and the pressures of circumstances. This is not living as a woman who knows the meaning and purpose of life.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

No One Needs You That Much

Starting today, instead of saying "I have to" when discussing your actions or goals, substitute the words "I choose to." Now the phrase "I have to go to work" becomes "I choose to go to work." And "I have to lose weight" becomes "I choose to lose weight." Saying "I choose to" puts you in charge and affirms that you want to see results.

This love is not a melting of self, a softened apprehension of the other. The loved one need not meet my gaze, acknowledge my presence, approve or know of me.

I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.

Freedom is an illusion. But, liberty from manumission is attainable.

Once you've tasted freedom every choice you make thereafter is your own.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.