Quotes about Autonomy

It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person.

My real soul...? It's real only when it's independent...

No hay nada que pueda arrebatar a un hombre su libertad, salvo otros hombres.

if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

But I don't think of you.

I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

I do not care to be admired by anyone's heart—only by someone's head.

They kept their secret from the knowledge of others, not as a shameful guilt, but as a thing that was immaculately theirs, beyond anyone's right of debate or appraisal.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.

What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree, and to obey?

She caught herself thinking: She's functioning well in an emergency, I'll be all right with her—and realized that she was thinking of herself.

Why, child, such things are to be decided only by you and my son.