Quotes About Autonomy

I came out of UCB and, before that, punk rock, and the whole deal was you do it yourself. Get up and rent the space, get up and press your own records, get up and silkscreen your own tees, get it done yourself. That sort of self-reliance will only serve me. Any time I lose sight of that, my career suffers.

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

I don't have a sugar daddy, I've never had a sugar daddy.

I think it is incumbent on the rest of us - and I would suggest that includes other European leaders - to pause in what has become a very popular game of telling the Greeks how to run their lives.

To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.

I'm not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do.

Over the years, I've consciously not done films that in any way suggest that women are subservient to men.

I'm someone who doesn't often ask for help, just suggestions.

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

I don't persuade to suicide.

If I find someone who is suitable, then I will definitely take the relationship ahead, but no one can force me to get married.

I haven't tried to model myself on anyone. I have my own action, and that suits me.

I like being permanently single. It suits me perfectly.

I believe that women have the right to wear any attire that suits their comfort. And above all, every individual has the right to wear an attire of their choice, and no one can deny that.

I do try to stay involved in training and keep that routine as much as I can. I just feel I need to do it for myself, not because the manager demands it, but because you get to a stage where you have to manage yourself - what suits you; what doesn't.

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.

Not knowing my birthday had never seemed strange. I knew I'd been born near the end of September, and each year I picked a day, one that didn't fall on a Sunday because it's no fun spending your birthday in church.

I worked in WH Smiths on Sloane Square and my first boss was a woman called June. My shift was half a day on Saturdays, and nine to six on Sundays. I was in and out of the place and only turned up when I wanted to.

I might have sung party numbers, but I love to party alone.

I started driving really late. It was super freeing and fun to be able to just drive by myself. But the thing is, I don't really like driving.

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.

Why must a man be always taking on Things not his own, as if he were a servant whose marketing-bag grows heavier and heavier from stall to stall and, loaded down, he follows and doesn't dare ask: Master, why this banquet?

Some day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer signify merely an opposite of the masculine, but something in itself, something that makes one think, not of any complement and limit, but only of life and existence: the feminine human being. - Rilke