Quotes About Autonomy

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffers, not the state.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

I love how you still think if you tell me to do something, I'll just check my brain at the door and do it.

I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house?

When have I ever given him the impression that I was okay with him just stopping by whenever he wanted to use my body as an organic garbage disposal?

A woman needs a man like a tortoise needs a crah helmet.

Never follow the crowd....Until and unless you're crossing the road...

The future gets no say in who we are.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.

The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.

Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

The future of Africa lies not with external actors but within Africa itself. The future of Africa lies here in Africa.