Autonomy Quotes

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”

“My life is an open book, but I'm the one who is writing it.”

“I've always been very free with my body. It's the only thing that's truly mine.”

“Autonomy is a key principle in bioethics, but it isn't the only one. We also have to consider justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.”

“We always had a real strong sense of who we were, and we weren't going to be told what to do.”

“It's my body and if I want to do it like Michael Jackson, I will. My face is my own.”

“What children learn does not follow as a direct result of what is taught, rather, it is in large part due to the children’s own doing, as a consequence of their activities and our resources.”

“If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”

“I owe my intellectual survival to the public library, where I could find things that I was not supposed to read.”

“The anarchist, above all, is a man who is his own master.”

“I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave me a soul, and thus myself, to be my own keeper.”

“My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please.”

“We must learn to think for ourselves and act for ourselves.”

“What I want to do is I want to tell my story in my own words.”

“Too much has been said and written about woman's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.”

“We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.”

“We want to be masters of our own biographies.”

“I'm not going to be a puppet on a string.”

“Autonomy is the capacity to form and act on one's own preferences and values.”

“My pieces are objects. They are things that have a life of their own.”