physical autonomy Quotes

Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

To be able to float and move around and, pretty much effortlessly, do whatever you want with your body in space is pretty amazing.

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

My feet, they haul me Round the House, They hoist me up the Stairs; I only have to steer them, and They Ride me Everywheres.

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

I want to have a fit, healthy body and not have to be put in a box. I don't want to be limited by anything.

I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing.

I just want to be able to get onstage and move and move around.

My body and my will are one.

I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.

My body is an instrument for me to use.

Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.

Free your mind and your ass will follow

Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.

If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop.

There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.

All I want is to feel good and really own my body, and that's what I tried to create.

She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself.

I would agree that much with people who accept private property - that conscription is an unpardonable transgression, whether it be "corrupt" or not. The Spanish anarchists opposed conscription during the civil war in Spain as a gross expropriation of property, the most precious property that we have, our own physical beings themselves.