Quotes About Autonomy

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

We can be kind to others and kind to ourselves - and what anyone else decides to do is up to them. We can just be responsible to ourselves.

I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.

All I believe in is, you need to be yourself.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

Whether you're going to fail or succeed, you've got to be yourself.

We don't manage money for anyone else. We bear responsibility only for our own risks.

Don't tell me to watch the beat. You watch me.

I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.

I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.

It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

I have always had a bee in my bonnet about being seen to do things for myself.

It's not easy living alone but I've done it before.

All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.

I don't like people seeing how I behave, walk, eat, and stay.

I'm not going to be told that I shouldn't be doing anything, or behaving in any particular way at any age of my life.

If you're beholden to your dad, then you have to do what he says. I couldn't have that!

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

I don't belong to anyone.

My choices and my decisions belong to me. I even accept my errors.

I don't feel like my job is to be beloved.

a work that no one on the planet can do for us, no matter how much they would want to, no matter how much love they have for us, no matter how badly they feel for us, no matter how much they are helping us in the ways that they can help.

But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.