Quotes About Autonomy

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

I've had enough of being public property.

You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.

We can be a free and independent country and will prosper if given a proper chance.

We are a free and independent country and will prosper if given a proper chance.

I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

I am definitely not under British protection. I have to protect myself. I am not M.I.6. I am not C.I.A. I am not anything.

People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through?

I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.

I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the decisions that have to be made by the President.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Autonomy in the workplace is highly valuable in neoliberal organizations because responsibility is no longer vertically distributed but horizontally spread and diffused.

Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that someone or something was going to do this for me – the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms.

its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.