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Quotes about Autonomy

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.
- Hillary Clinton
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
- Gloria Steinem
The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.
- Kerry Washington
I really started from grassroots, without a handout or anything.
- E-40
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite
- Thomas Jefferson
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
- Thomas Merton
Reason obeys itselt; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
- Thomas Paine
If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free.
- Thomas Paine
What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. I've been criticized on many, many occasions, because of - acquaintances, and what have you.
- Frank Sinatra
No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you!
- Og Mandino