Quotes About Autonomy

The world runs by ungrace. Everything depends on what I do.

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

I am not a yard of ribbon. I am not a leg of ham. I am not for sale to anyone.

She flashed me a quick black glance and then her dark eyelashes swept down on her cheeks. 'Not me,' she said 'I make my own plans. I don't risk being taken up and dropped again.' 'You told me to risk it.' I reminded her. 'That was for you,' she said 'I would not live my life as you live yours. You would always do as you were bid. I am not like you. I make my own way.

their fields. They will be free

A woman needs to be economically independent more than she needs a lover or a child.

Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself. Bink put his face in his hands and cried.

Bink stare the way Jewel had gone. I wish there was something I could do. You can leave her alone, Cherie said firmly. She must make her own life.

Bink stared the way Jewel had gone. I wish there was something I could do. You can leave her alone, Cherie said firmly. She must make her own life.

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Very true. Then

Too much freedom seems to change into nothing but too much slavery, both for private man and city.

que es dueño de sí mismo es también esclavo, y el que es esclavo, dueño; ya que en todos estos dichos se habla de una misma persona.

The sphincter which serve to discharge our stomachs has dilations and contractions proper to itself, independent of our wishes or even opposed to them.

For a few hours we can be unhappy in the manner of free men.

She must come through on her own," said Ruwach calmly. "Others can call her, and I can make it accessible for her, but she must make the choice on her own.

I've never considered myself a writer writing stuff to sell, but as a director who writes stuff for himself to direct.

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

I have permission to live off campus." She didn't say from whom, because it was primarily herself.

We had this talk," she said. "You may be dead sexy, and I mean, like, really dead and really sexy, but you don't get to tell me what to do. Right? And no head-shrinker stuff, either, or I swear to God, I'll pack my shit and move!

I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.

He lives alone and makes his bed? Who does that?

There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days.

She needs you for more than just protection. It's how it works. You want the strong girl, you understand that she's with you because she wants to be. Not because she has to be. You know that, right?