Quotes About Autonomy

When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.

But whether you stay or go, the critical decision you can make is to stop letting your partner distort the lens of your life, always forcing his way into the center of the picture. You deserve to have your life be about you; you are worth it.

And you are not "enabling" your partner to mistreat you; he is entirely responsible for his own actions.

Your problem is not that you lose control of yourself, it's that you take control of your partner. In order to change, you don't need to gain control over yourself, you need to let go of control of her.

I can't solve his problems, and it's not my fault that he thinks I should.

You are not your partner. His issues are not your issues. His behavior is not your behavior. His destructiveness does not prove that anything is wrong with you. You are separate people.

A man's partner is not his child, and the freedoms he "grants" her are not credits to be spent like chips when the urge to control her arises.

Make a decision inside of yourself—a deep decision—that you are 100 percent responsible for your actions, and he is 100 percent responsible for his actions. You have zero responsibility for what he does, and he has zero responsibility for what you do.

He is entirely responsible for his own actions. His behavior is his choice.

Quiero tener una opinión cuando todo esto termine. Quiero decidir. No quiero que el cáncer decida por mi. Mi cuerpo. Mi elección.

People relinquish ownership of their lives so quickly (especially where love is concerned) that the responsibility for what happens to us relative to knowing those people automatically falls on them as if we had no control.

Muito do que nos legaram pode ser re-programado: somos fruto mas não escravos, o olhar primordial que nos saudou não é necessariamente uma sentença de morte.

Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

Sempre fomos o que os homens disseram que nós éramos. Agora somos nós que vamos dizer o que somos.

I have a repugnance to be known and understood by everybody. I do not like to have my feelings or my thoughts every one's property.

to stay out as long as I like. But

Today Rosa's little one will take his first step in outgrowing his mother. Children are their own persons; they are not part of us.

I think people who try to run their marriages according to other people's expectations are insane. It is quite hard enough to keep a marriage together till death do you part- which I think should be the aim, even if it can't always succeed- without trying to do it to please other people. A good marriage is whatever suits the participants, and our marriage suited us fine.

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine that you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

I hate being told what to do! Especially by myself!

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

you couldn't stop a person from being who she was. All you could do was stop yourself from being with her.

I rather doubt that anyone tells Lord Hylton what to do," she said dryly.