Quotes About Autonomy

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way.

If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

And she finally stopped playing their song, when she realized she was dancing alone.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.

Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

But the freedom of being my own boss is a wonderful thing.

I'm not waiting for you or any other man to tell me anything ever again.

Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we'll be perennially bound to others for our happiness and effective service.

Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.

What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

I was afraid of all the lost choices I would never be able to make, and that for the rest of my life someone would always be telling me what to do or say or think, even when I had better ideas of my own. I was afraid of never being anything but what suited others and being pushed and prodded until I fit the mold they shoved me into and I forgot who I was and what I wanted.

You are not letting me go anywhere. Where I go and what I do is still my choice to make.

I am choosing my own destiny now - not a book, nor a man or a kingdom.

You [men] are not our protectors.... If you were, who would there be to protect us from?

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

We don't care how they do it in New York.

The man who stands in dependence on another is no longer a man at all, he has lost his standing, he is nothing but the possession of another man.