Quotes About Autonomy

Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

Even I have certain depictions that I personally don't like, but I don't believe artists should necessarily follow a particular person's preference. They should focus on the things they like and follow their own desires.

These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.

I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

I really preferred the characters I could totally create by myself, because I always think of myself as an actor first.

I believe in the right to choose. I have chosen to end a pregnancy before.

Trans justice calls on us to combat the blend of prejudices that demean the lives and diminish the autonomy of another person.

I just never want to be in this situation where I get to set and they're like, 'We rewrote this scene, you're now naked.' I need a little prep work.

I just like being me, and whether the people love me or hate me, that's their own prerogative.

If someone doesn't like something, it's their prerogative not to like it. It's not possible to please everyone. That doesn't mean that I'm going to change my mental make-up. I follow my instinct.

Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.

As an author on a corporate press, you have a lot less control over the finished product. I figure if I spend a couple years writing something, I want to be able to decide what the cover looks like and how it's going to be presented.

Cabaret presents different challenges, as it is all on me. I love having the freedom to say anything you want - do anything you want. It is a lot of responsibility, and if it works, you get all the kudos, and if not - all the blame.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton want government to run your health care. My dad believes that you and your doctor should decide your health care.

I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press. They can change to whatever they want to do at any point. They own this thing. They can do whatever they want.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

I don't pressure anyone to do anything for me.

Do what you want to do, and don't feel pressure to do what other people want.

I don't really feel any pressure. I can control only what I can control.

I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.

We didn't ask for our wombs and ovaries, and this presumption that we have to use them because otherwise it's a waste, otherwise we're not emotional or not sensitive in some way, it's a really cruel diagnosis of a woman's character.