Quotes About Autonomy

I've never had anyone's approval, so I've learned to live without it.

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.

If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she'd end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

He can stop me in my tracks, but he can't make me do someting I don't want to

Silvia was tough, smart, and could survive on herown - she didn't need a handsome prince to ride up and rescue her. But that didn't mean such a man might not want to protect her from everything he could, anyway.

I gave him a put-upon sigh. "I am not one of your pack members, Adam. I know this is difficult for you to fathom, so I'll speak slowly: I don't belong to you. I am under no obligation to tell you anything.

As long as I thought what he wanted me to think, he liked it when I thought for myself.

She doesn't need me to make sure she has enough food or a place to live—that is my privilege, but she doesn't need me to do that. She doesn't need me to keep her safe or to make her a whole person. She doesn't need me to do anything except love her. Which I do.

I won't be forced either. I've had enough. If that makes me a dog in the manger, so be it. But if I am yours, then you damned well are going to be mine.

Accept some responsibility for your own life, I panted, finally. You could have stayed sitting in the middle of the road. You chose to come with us.

need me to make sure she has enough food or a place to live—that is my privilege, but she doesn't need me to do that. She doesn't need me to keep her safe or to make her a whole person. She doesn't need me to do anything except love her. Which I do.

the Queen of Alkyra can consort with whoever the Black she pleases!

There is no necessity to live by the clock.

Now it is clear that breaking the spell not only preserves our freedom, but freedom itself. Becoming a Spellbreaker is a matter of conscience.

and by acting in her own best interests she relieves her feelings of inadequacy and regains her natural State of Personal Power.

Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination. — Erich Fromm

Individually we have ever-increasing freedom to choose our own path on life's journey.

If your mate gives you orders, he has forgotten that you are a separate person with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that you are a free person, and that if he wants something of you, he must make a courteous request.

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

Freedom is the pause between stimulus and action. In the moment after something occurs and before we react, we are free to choose how we will show up. What will you choose?

It's the same with everything,' said Ninian. 'The greater the control we accept, the greater the freedom.