Quotes About Autonomy

It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.

Don't blindly follow any leader.

The older I get, the more I realize that what other people think about me has little to do with who I am. … We can't change other people, and we can't force them to see us the way we would like to be seen.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

but I would not lie ready to his hand. A tool can be used, a man must be asked.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Needless help is an actual hindrance to the development of natural forces.

A teacher simply assists him at the beginning to get his bearings among so many different things and teaches him the precise use of each of them; that is to say, she introduces him to the ordered and active life of the environment. But then she leaves him free in the choice and execution of his work.

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The fundamental principle of scientific pedagogy must be, indeed, the liberty of the pupil;–such liberty as shall permit a development of individual, spontanous manifestations of the child's nature. If

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

We habitually serve children; and this is not only an act of servility toward them, but it is dangerous, since it tends to suffocate their useful, spontaneous activity. We

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.

One benefit of being an old woman now, and moreover one who has been called a "national treasure," is that there are very few who can tell me what I may and may not write.

Are a woman's wishes only fit to be considered when blessed by a male relative?

There's a difference between owning your choices and blaming yourself.

Don't wait until you find someone. You are someone.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the economy, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension. — Kathleen Tierney Andrews, author

Speaking of taking responsibility, a quick reminder about an essential universal principle: You are 100 percent responsible for your life. Always and in all ways. It's not your parents. It's not the economy. It's not your husband or your wife or your family. It's not your boss. It's not the schools you went to. It's not the government or society or institutions or your age. You are responsible for what you believe, how you feel, and how you behave.

Everyone needs to take control of his or her own life by making sense of it. It doesn't matter how conventional or unconventional that process is.