Definition of "self-determining" [self•-de•ter•min•ing]

• Capable of self-determination. (adjective)

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• "When she was 80, my grandmother was run over by a speeding drunk driver, and her life as a self-determining human being suddenly stopped."
• "She was driven not only by the need to provide for herself and for her family but by her desire to restore to the women of Kabul their belief in themselves as self-determining and self-sufficient."
• "It sees women not as self-determining individuals but as objects who must be prodded and starved and drained of personality to fit a template of the man's choosing."