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Quotes About Autonomy

I have the irrational habit of not listening to people who tell me what to do
~ Unknown
You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.
~ Joanna Russ
The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
~ Jodi Picoult
It's choice that makes us human.
~ Jodi Picoult
She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.
~ Jodi Picoult
You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
~ Jodi Picoult
We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.
~ Jodi Picoult
Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.
~ Jodi Picoult
Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.
~ Jodi Picoult
I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.
~ Unknown
A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else's.
~ Kathy McClary
Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
~ Unknown
There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
~ Albert Camus
When I die my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills.
~ Gloria Swanson
Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
~ Marge Piercy
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
~ Natalie Massenet
I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.
~ Emilia Fox
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
~ Robin G. Collingwood
Reality has exiled me; I am no longer bound by it's laws.
~ Unknown
From now on you have to watch out your every move. You're at the age where your parents can legally stop giving you pocket money.
~ Unknown
Be yourself, and you will rarely be bored.
~ Unknown
I like being in control. I feel many females don't like being in control because they aren't confident in what they are doing.
~ Unknown
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone elses eyes. Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~ Unknown