Quotes about Autonomy

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that you've got no say in what other people do with their lives. Everyone makes their own choices, good or bad.

The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.

Did Honoring mean to do everything you were told without question? Did it mean swift capitulation? Did it mean giving up yourself for the sake of living out someone else's dreams? No matter what that dream was?

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.

For him freedom meant doing exactly what you wanted all the time. Was that freedom for everybody?

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.

I learned this early on in the variety store business: you've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.