Quotes About Autonomy

You did this to me," I say, still trembling. "You put it in my head and made me–" "I did no such thing," he says. "I merely showed you the path. You walked down it all by yourself.

I can't tell you what's real for you. But in return, you can't say what's real for me either. I get to choose. Not you.

A woman my age, living alone," she said, at least once a day, "if I don't keep on top of things, who will?

You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.

There's peace to be found in doing something for yourself.

I thought I could organise freedom. How Scandinavian of me. –Björk

She ain't my girl, she's her own girl, she don't belong to anyone.

A few of you are here by choice. Or at least by Switzerland.

I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well give up.

No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why? Because that would result in a lot of shitty cheese.

I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy.

Besides, there was a dignity to doing things in your own time.

You need to decide what you want for yourself. You want to go home? There's a price. You want control over your life? There's a price. You want the freedom to say no? There's a price. There's always a price.

No, she won't," Bast said smugly. "Because I'm all grown, and I can do whatever I want with my pants. I could light them on fire and I wouldn't get in any trouble at all.

there was a dignity to doing things in your own time.

It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines." Sleat gave a lazy

I can't tell you that," Denna said. "You need to decide what you want for yourself. You want to go home? There's a price. You want control over your life? There's a price. You want the freedom to say no? There's a price. There's always a price.

Which do you think is the greater type of power?" I only had to think for a second. "The inherent, your grace." "Interesting. Why do you say that?" "Because a power you possess yourself cannot be taken away, your grace.

If whatever you're going to do is wrong, you might as well do whatever you want.

Inherent power you possess as part of yourself. Granted power is lent or given by other people.

Think what you want about making babies. Believe in demons. Pray to a goat. So long as it doesn't bruise me, why should I bother myself?

This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

Besides which, he was a man who did not let his decisions be made for him by other people, not by a crowd thrown into panic, and certainly not by some anonymous piece of criminal trash.