Quotes About Autonomy

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.

It was like diving into winter waves. "I can't," I told him. "Why not?" "Because I need to find out who I am by myself before I can be with anyone else.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

Everybody gets to be free.

You are not here to please other people or to live your lives their way.

replace it with the word could. Could gives us choice, and we are never wrong.

You are in control of your mind.

Notre place dans le l'humanité [en tant que femme] ne doit pas être mendiée, mais prise

You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.

Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.

They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.

They lead "still" lives, waiting. - Myrna Landers Waiting for what? - Armand Gamache Waiting for someone to save them. Expecting someone to save them or at least protect them from the big, bad world. The thing is no one else can save them because the problem is theirs and so is the solution. - Myrna

Most of us are great with change, as long it was our idea. But change imposed from the outside can send some people into a tailspin. - Myrna Landers

Her tragedy was that she always found men to save her. She never had to save herself. She never knew she could.

Some mothers see their job as preparing their kids to live in the big old world. To be independent, to marry and have children of their own. To live wherever they choose and do what makes them happy. That's love. Others, and we all see them, cling to their children. Move to the same city, the same neighborhood. Live through them. Stifle them. Manipulate, use guilt-trips, cripple them.' 'Cripple them? How?' 'By not teaching them to be independent.

I think you might try leading your life as though it's just you. If he comes back and you know your life will be better with him, then great. But you'll also know you're enough on your own.

The fault lies with us, and only us. It's not fate, not genetics, not bad luck, and it's definitely not Mom and Dad. Ultimately it's us and our choices...but the most powerful spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well.

Waiting for someone to save them. Expecting someone to save them or at least protect them from the big, bad world. The thing is no one else can save them because the problem is theirs and so is the solution. Only they can get out of it.

Their reasons are their own,' he finally said. 'I don't have to care.

With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power.

Mothers and children are classic examples. Some mothers see their job as preparing their kids to live in the big old world. To be independent, to marry and have children of their own. To live wherever they choose and do what makes them happy. That's love. Others, and we all see them, cling to their children. Move to the same city, the same neighborhood. Live through them. Stifle them. Manipulate, use guilt-trips, cripple them.

You're an artist," said Reine-Marie. "Do you think a work should be judged by its creator? Or should it stand on its own?