Quotes about Autonomy
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
— Walt Whitman
Because the greatest value for this generation is nothing less than individual freedom.
— James Emery White
I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.
— James Carse
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be our own before we can be another's.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.
— Marianne Williamson
As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.
— Joseph Wirthlin
We all exercise agency in the choices we make.
— Gordon Hinckley
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
— Alice Walker
I don't write about love because it makes for easy, passive heroes. I write about how love makes my characters more autonomous, more self-possessed, more opinionated and powerful. I write about characters who pursue relationships that make them the people they want to become. I write about love as a superpower.
— Lauren Kate
Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
— John F. Kennedy