Quotes about Autonomy

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.

Only the man who says no is free

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.