Autonomy Quote by Pat Califia

“No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.”

— Agnostic Zetetic

“Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren’t even really about your body, they’re about society and our society’s wrongheaded…

— Golda Poretsky

“My body is not my own.”

— Mary Pride

“When I am walking down the street, men lean out of their car windows and shout vulgar things at me about my body, how…

— Roxane Gay

“We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Our…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do with my…

— Malebo Sephodi

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of…

— Cecily McMillan

“We now experience the daily need to defend our self-concepts rather than our bodies.”

— Michael A. Singer

“I got used to it, in a way, being this sack of skin full of problems, because having a body doesn't give you the…

— Catherine Lacey

“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer.”

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

“Being embodied in flesh that decomposes and that is inscribed with all manner of cultural values not of your choosing is also a state…

— Lara Glenum

“My body is mine. I’ve created and carried children with this body. I’ve survived serious medical conditions with this body. I’ve endured great trials…

— C. Streetlights