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Quotes About Autonomy

The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself.
~ Noelle Stevenson
Your manager is your boss and tells you what to do, what to wear and who to be, so our relationship changed. I loved him with all my heart, but felt he'd stopped looking at me as a wife. I became a product.
~ Jane McDonald
I became my own boss once I entered showbusiness and started paying my own taxes.
~ Liz Mitchell
I've never liked bosses telling me what to do.
~ Jimmy Somerville
Seeking to ban things is as bossy as you can get.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.
~ Francesca Annis
Just to make it clear, I do not have a problem with anyone who decides to have Botox.
~ Stacey Solomon
I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.
~ Bjork
If you need to be bound to someone, then it's important to be married. If you are independent, then it's important to not be married.
~ Goldie Hawn
People don't follow me around, and they don't stop me in a way where it's excessive or invasive. It's always respectful. If it's not, I set my boundaries, and I walk away. That's just what you kind of have to do.
~ Frances Bean Cobain
I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.
~ Carrie Fisher
The more I get into this industry the more I kind of see that it'll take as much as you give. So for me, setting boundaries is sometimes saying no, and just being like, 'Actually I don't want to do that' even though people might in my situation say yes.
~ Jaz Sinclair
You have to be very good at setting boundaries for yourself, so you're not taken advantage of.
~ Emma Corrin
I'm not a rude boy; I'm my own thing.
~ Ashley Thomas
I'm definitely an independent person, and I don't need boyfriends all the time.
~ Amanda Hearst
Krushna is my boyfriend but my life doesn't begin and end with him and neither does his professional career begin and end with me.
~ Kashmira Shah
Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.
~ Bruce Feiler
I just want to be on my own branch twittering.
~ Deborah Eisenberg
I would prefer myself to own all of my brand, where everything I am responsible for myself.
~ Roustam Tariko
I know where my bread is buttered, and for the most part, I'm better off doing my own thing.
~ Mike Patton
I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.
~ Carson Kressley
One of my great breaks is I have only done work I wanted to do.
~ William Goldman
Liberty is the breath of progress.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I'm my own man. I'm Brian Flores.
~ Brian Flores