Quotes About Autonomy

Be empowered as a female, as a woman. Don't apologize. Don't lose yourself in another person's life.

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

If a woman wants to take her husband's name, that's her choice, and I still think she can be feminist while doing that.

I'm not a feminist at all.

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

It's not my place to tell anyone what kind of feminist she should be.

When I say, 'I want women to have control over their bodies,' I mean that I want women to know and embrace their fertility.

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

You can't force fighters to fight.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

You can't live in someone else's shoes; you've got to branch out and fill your own shoes.

When I am filming a movie, I think I tend to do what I want with my character.

It's nice that I can do what I want with my hair when I'm not filming.

I always say that AMC hires filmmakers, and they let them be filmmakers.

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.

I get advice, but the final decision about my life is one I always take alone.