Quotes About Autonomy

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

Anyone who interprets or defines your rights controls your destiny.

My mother said, neutrally, that other children in the neighborhood were able to amuse themselves; they didn't seem to need adults to be involved with their pastimes. With a disinclined air, she taught me how to play solitaire.

We prize "freedom to" so much more than "freedom from.

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.

They'd scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.

Can anyone tell you when you're grown up?" Another

what I'd really like to know is how it feels to be on my own. Not someone's daughter or wife, I mean…but my own person." "Oh." It seemed I'd surprised him. "There isn't a lot of that kind of thinking around here." "Of course there is," I told him, trying to draw a smile. "It's just usually a man who's doing it.

I wasn't sure how I could say no." "No is the easiest word there is. Children learn to talk by saying no.

I have fought for independence here, and freedom too. More and more I find they're not at all the same thing.

instantly, tense and on guard. I can't help thinking of that rape charge during his undergrad years, and how violence against women is almost never about sex, but about domination. About crushing a woman's autonomy with total control, driven by hate.

Remember no one made you do anything. It's never anyone but you who does anything, and for that reason alone you shouldn't be sorry.

I came to see that Harrison wasn't my failed prince and I wasn't in his victim. He hadn't led me on at all; I'd led myself on.

The child must be given activities that encourage independence, and he must not be served by others in acts he can learn to perform himself.

How are we to help? We need to become aware of all the ways in which we hold the child back from becoming a fully functioning human being: the sink and counter that she cannot reach, the mirror that is too high for her to see herself, the chair that is too big for her to sit comfortably in...the pants that are too tight for her to pull up and down...

independence, coordinated movement, language, and will.

This means that everything the child must use in taking care of himself must be in proportion to his size and ability; the hook to hang his clothes on; the places where he washes and brushes and teeth, where he hangs his towel....

I wouldn't fool with these people too much," Deaver said. "They are not toys or dolls that one can arrange their thoughts or minds as you wish, simply give them a change of costume. They are grown men and they are lethal." Jiles, Paulette. The Color of Lightning: A Novel (p. 184). HarperCollins e-books. Kindle Edition.

In America, a woman's body seemed to belong to everybody but herself. Her sexuality belonged to her husband, her opinion of herself belonged to her social circles, and her uterus belonged to the government.

Siempre seré libre, oh, padre mío, porque todo en mí está subordinado a mi voluntad. Así

Nobody really controls a production, now; the director is on his own, even if he's insecure, careless, or nuts.

No. You didn't start with me. I came to you because you already had yourself

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.