Quotes About Autonomy

Opet sam sam. Možda je i najbolje tako, ne o?ekuješ pomo? i ne bojiš se izdaje. Sam. U?ini?u sve što mogu, ne uzdaju?i se u podršku koje nema, i onda je moje sve što postignem, i zlo i dobro.

Nemamo prava da i od koga zahtijevamo da brine naše brige.

Isklju?io sam se, i bio isklju?en, odvojen od svega oko sebe, i svijet je prili?no avetinjski, živ ali ravnodušan. A i ja sam osamostaljen i neprobojan.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.

All people, male or female, were helpless in the specifics of their own bodies.

They should hand out vibrators if they're going to demand so much of you that you can't find time for a private life.

My job does not define me.

I like being a girl. I just want to be the one who says what that means.

And you should try to do what you want. We should all try to do whatever we want in life. I mean, what is the point otherwise?

It's like we kept trying to use the same rules," Greer said, "and these people kept saying to us, 'Don't you get it? I will not live by your rules.'" She took a breath. "They always get to set the terms. I mean, they just come in and set them. They don't ask, they just do it. It's still true.

Apparently you didn't require air when you were a teenager. You made your own air.

There are some places a person can go where no one else can follow them. And sometimes you just have to trust that they know what they're doing.

There is no team in I

There is so much freedom in not having to choose.

Feeling pressured into doing something I didn't want to do for people I didn't want to please.

Illness "controlled her without making her feel that her liberty was invaded,

And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If you had asked me to marry you the night you first told me about your acceptance, I would have embraced Princeton as part of a larger plan that involved me. I probably would have reacted differently. I might even had said yes. Alas, you didn't ask me then. You made plans for your future without me in mind, And that's okay. But how can you now ask me to arrange my life around you?

Fortunately for me, I'm still evolving into the person I'm supposed to be. And though they don't know it yet, and may not come to accept it, I'm done living by their protocols or anyone else's. I'm the only one who will take credit for my successes. And I'm the only one who will take the blame for my mistakes. From now on, I live for me.

Because I've learned that you can't control what other people are going to think about you. The best you can do in life is not piss yourself off.

We help others only as much as they let us.

I'm psychology major who has no desire to work with people.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.

What if I have become sure that personal freedom is the thing I hold most dear?