Autonomy Quote by Tracy Anne Warren

“She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“No one had ever advocated her independence before. The entire success of her marriage, her whole career as a woman, depended largely upon her…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“As I’d worked at my job and traveled and read and lived my life, I’d also decided that a woman is meant to be…

— Anu Partanen

“She had effaced herself, when he first knew her; she had made herself small, pretending there was less of her than there really was.…

— Henry James

“What she did know, unfortunately, was that she had to reconsider everything she'd ever willed herself to believe about her husband.”

— Chris Pavone

“Gradually then, because he could not share his inner self with her, he lost the power of being a husband to her, and she…

— Betty Smith

“He had a feeling that somewhere in the course of her life something had happened to her, something terrible which in the end had…

— Louis Bromfield

“She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun…

— Karen Chance

“She was after all the kind of woman who would make a man easily uproot his life, the kind who, because she did not…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for…

— Andrew Morton

“Another and less elevated lesson she had learned in married life was that if she wheedled long enough and discreetly enough, she quite often…

— Winston Graham