“Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future.” ThinkingWorldNeedsMeanPastMovingValuesOrderBornLinesEnvironmentShapesIndependenceDeterminedMeaningfulArrangementsAutonomyDefiningMoving Out Author:Gerda Lerner
“Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.” PeopleSelfBlackTermDeterminationBlack PeopleSelf DeterminationAutonomyIntegratedAmerican Society Author:Gerda Lerner
