Quotes About Autonomy

I dont think Ill ever stop working, its what I do even though I dont have to - thats one of the pleasures of having your own business.

Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine.

My plumbing is no one's business but my own.

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

I want everything that I've worked for to go into my pocket. I want all my money to come to me. I'm very much hands-on with my career, and I like to do what I want in the studio - I don't like being told, 'do it this way' or 'do it that way.'

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and make demands upon you.

The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point.

I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be 'up'.

You have to be responsible to yourself... but that doesn't mean you can't have a point of view about something.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

I would rather clean than beg.

I don't like people cleaning my room.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.

People often ask me, 'Who is your role model?' and it sounds a bit cliche, but I've been trying to be my own model.

Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the U.S., but I didn't click with anyone.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I am not the clone of anyone.

I'm not a clone, and I'm not a minion.

I always wanted to be me and not a Lahm clone or Lahm the second.

Women have as much right as men to do whatever they want behind closed doors.

You base your life, and you live your life on your terms. Your opinion matters, and the opinions of the people closest to you matter. Nobody else's opinion matters.