Quotes About Autonomy

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

Eventually you have to stop letting people define you and start defining yourself. It's a lesson I'm both teaching and learning.

you're going to have to face this. You can't let other people decide your life for you...Other people's judgement doesn't have any power unless you offer yourself up for trial, so don't.

Who chooses the schedules we keep? We do, I guess.

reaction to something I've done, not that they're just doing their thing.

I've been giving them all the control, but when you get right down to it, what should matter is whether or not you can live with who you are." What should matter is whether or not you can live with who you are.

Eventually you have to stop letting people define you and start defining yourself. It's a lesson I'm both teaching and learning. Name yourself. Claim yourself. Classroom Constitution, Article Twelve.

Sooner or later, you have to shed your family's expectations and run the race on your own.

Is my name V? No... Then why would I follow U?

Only you can set you free.

Yet despite the threats from states – including in Hungary – they remain the only institutions that can guarantee universities' autonomy. The key is in the hand of the state. It can turn it on, it can turn it off.

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy.

Marriage: just say no.

If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!

There is a subtle difference between being a prisoner and being a slave. I don't mistake either for being free.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

To be treated with consideration is, in the case of female travellers, too often synonymous with being prevented from doing what one wants.

I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.

For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.

I am my own heir.