Quotes About Autonomy

Of all mammals, only a human being can say 'no.

Smile girls, you'll look so much prettier. So I'll damn well decide for myself when I'm ready to smile.

I enjoyed my own company enough that I didn't feel the need to socialize with people who exhausted me.

I think he came to believe it was better to choose your life, and that even choosing your death was better than letting someone else choose your life.

Your parents don't get to tell your story. Your sisters don't. When he's old enough, even Pat doesn't get to tell your story. I'm your husband and I don't even get to tell it. So I don't care how lovesick this director is, he doesn't tell it. ... No one gets to tell you what your life means! ~Alvis

You don't get to pick which parts of me you find acceptable and throw away what you don't.

Your choice comes from strength, not from dependence. - Justin

I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you.

Ashoke suspects that Mrs. Jones (the secretary at his new job as a professor) ...is about his own mother's age. Mrs. Jones leads a life that Ashoke's mother would consider humiliating: eating alone, driving herself to work in snow and sleet, seeing her children and grandchildren, at most, three or four times a year.

You, who chafed at the collective we created, who only wanted to subtract yourself, always, from the equation, throwing it off-balance.

Relax," Edith says. "The perfect name will come to you in time." Which is when Gogol announces, "There's no such thing." "No such thing as what?" Astrid says. "There's no such thing as a perfect name. I think that human beings should be allowed to name themselves when they turn eighteen," he adds. "Until then, pronouns.

As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement?

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

Its beyond him now. its time for you to do you own thing." "My thing? my thing only worked if Grace was here to make it work. without Grace, i have an emotionally unbalanced wolf and a Volkswagen.

Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.

My work speaks for itself.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.