text: responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking talking and naming for you it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security for our bodies to be treated as objects our minds are in mortal danger it means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind it means being able to say with charlotte bronte s jane eyre i have an inward treasure born with me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price i cannot afford to give