Quotes About Autonomy

I don't think anyone should tap you on the shoulder and tell you that it's time to sit down and retire.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

The best part of owning a blog is the fact that you are in control. You can write about anything you want to write about. You can decide how your blog looks. You can decide who to target. You can decide how to monetize the blog. You have full control!

For 'Nier: Automata', I wasn't told to target anyone. I just made what I wanted to, and I tried to stay hidden from Square Enix as much as possible.

Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.

Never having to hoover, cook, clean or do any task I don't want to would be heaven.

If you want someone else to do a task, don't do it yourself.

For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

I have an opinion. I have my own taste.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

We were the leaders of a company at the age of 15 with lawyers, tax advisers and managers around us, all on our payroll. A huge chunk of responsibility rested on our shoulders, which at the same time was a good thing since we hate superiors.

There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.

I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia.

I do my taxes. I do my own bookkeeping. I pay rent.

Running your own business can be the loneliest job in the world. You are the MD, answer the phone and make tea, handle the invoices and have to make payments on time.

I would really want to teach someone how to function without having to have plays called for you.

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.