Quotes About Autonomy

Women who buy perfume and flowers for themselves because their men won't do it are called 'self basting.

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.

I am my own woman.

There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die.

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Life is not defined by other peoples experiences but by how you define it!

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

I don't want to cage you with my love, I want you to chose what truly makes you happy.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love allows you to choose to make your own Decisions to live in accordance with your own choices.

Sometimes, the best thing you can do for the people you love is to respect their important decisions in life.

If you plant your own seeds in your garden you won't have to see what someone else is growing, because you will be to busy showing love to your own.

I am not a tool , so don't treat me as if I am one

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

You need your own strength in this life. Your own purpose. You can't simply live for others.

The breath breathes itself. If it was up to us to remember to breathe, we'd have forgotten long ago. So tuning into the breath can be an important antidote to the natural tendency toward believing that we have to be in control.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalism and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).

I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalised and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).

Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.