Quotes about Autonomy

It's one of the guiding philosophies of my life - not fearing any authority on earth.

I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

We must be our own before we can be another's.

People can put their capital to work where they like.

Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

We all exercise agency in the choices we make.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

I don't write about love because it makes for easy, passive heroes. I write about how love makes my characters more autonomous, more self-possessed, more opinionated and powerful. I write about characters who pursue relationships that make them the people they want to become. I write about love as a superpower.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.