587 Quotes About Self-determination

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

I'm single because I was born that way.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.