Quotes about Autonomy

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

If we don't control our calendar, our calendar will end up controlling us.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..

We must not be dependent on the judgment of the world or the flesh; in fact, we must not be dependent on the judgment even of our own hearts regarding ourselves.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

Trump usually avoided: he had no interest in personnel problems, since they put the emphasis on other people.