Quotes About Autonomy

being in control of the situation was really important because otherwise it was in control of me

I was not in control of this situation and I could see at least ten instances now where I'd made wrong decisions and being in control of the situation was really important because otherwise it was in control of me and that felt like a short step to being back in the company's control.

She trusts me to take care of myself, even when she doesn't want to. I can't be like a normal consort; I'll just cause trouble. Look what I did at Opal Night, and I wasn't even trying.

Ugh, self-determination sucks sometimes.

The good thing about being a construct is that you can't reproduce and create children to argue with you.

Use this advice to prod your thinking, but don't use it as a replacement for your thinking. In the end you have to make, and live with, the decisions yourself.

If a patient cannot clean his teeth, no dentist can clean them for him.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..

After having been made a wife to an older man and an attendant to a princess, the identity she chose to retain was the one she had acquired by her own initiative: that of an author.

If a man can't give you more than you can give yourself, then dump him.

You must look out for number one. If you don't, no one else will.

We all have to live by our own lights, love, do what we can.

Your name was the only thing you ever really owned, for good or for bad; that choice was yours.

You have a blank piece of paper, Glenford, and what you eventually write on it is of your own doing. Good or bad, you have to decide for yourself.

But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you.

It's important to note that interdependence differs from what is sometimes called "codependence"—that is, an unhealthy relationship in which an individual's sense of identity and worth is wrapped up in the other person.

There's such a fine line between maintaining independence and knowing when you aren't independent anymore.

You can't catch a creature like that anymore than you can catch a person. You can only create an environment they might want to live in. The rest is up to them.

She didn't think she was better than hearing people, simply equal. She didn't want more rights than they had, she wanted the same. She didn't want to change the way they led their lives, she just wanted to be left alone to live hers. It was draining to constantly be looked at as deficient, handicapped, in need of fixing. Other people's opinions—that was the handicap she faced, not her hearing loss!

I leave before being left. I decide.

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that...' But you do want to stay intact--intact and on two feet.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.