Quotes About Autonomy

If you ever find yourself walking a mile in my shoes, I hope that you would be at least be given the same choice.

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

I hope my kids learn to put themselves first.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master, it's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.

In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.

I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.

A woman needs a man like a tuba needs a cucumber.

If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.

...as the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, he'll have to teach himself.

If you are against abortions, don't have one.

I guess 'joint' would imply two people had ownership, which, thanks Life, is simply no longer the case.

I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I'll make an exception.

I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.