Quotes About Autonomy

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Just because I'm single doesn't mean you need to hit on me.

I've been in relationships, but I'd rather be alone. If a guy can't treat me right, I can manage on my own.

The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as youve never explored before, what human nature is like.

I don't bake cookies. I don't want to take care of a man. I'm bitchy. I'm demanding. I want my own space and free time, and when I'm in a bad mood, I'll tell you and I'll use bad language while I do it.

Being passive doesn't mean being subservient. Her power lay in how well she chose to respond. There was no subservience involved.

We act of our own free will, and if we find life too much to be borne, then clearly there's no one to blame but ourselves.

My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.

nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...

Unlike many, I was not intent on reproducing myself, deliberately or accidentally, since one of myself was more than enough for me to handle.

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

I've tried love," Louis said, as if it were a kind of soft, malodorous French cheese. "It's okay, but the problem with it is the other person involved. She has a mind of her own. You can't say the same thing about things.

each point in the universe must make up its own mind on the question of acknowledgement before acknowledgement can be considered universal.

A man is not a man until he leaves his home or has a house of his own.

Always do your job without caring what others will think about it.

Being alone by oneself is much better than being alone with another.

Define yourself. Never give anyone any chance to define you by their definitions.

Don't be an example in someone else's theory, write yours using your own examples.

Don't care about what people think about you. They don't put food on your table or pay your bills.

He who knows how to beg can always leave his money at home.

Never interfere in a person's decisions about what he will do with his possessions.

Never judge a man by his relatives; he didn't choose them.

The anvil never takes advice from the hammer.

The best kind of mind is that which minds its own business.