Quotes About Autonomy

I have always been known as Mahesh Bhatt's wife, and I would tell people, 'Hello! I'm here!' This has always been a struggle. I would like to be known for who I am. I'm very happy to be known as his wife or Alia's mother. But I am also a person who, in her own right, has gone through quite a lot of odds.

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

I don't play no one else's game and I don't run no one else's race because if I did that, I wouldn't be who I am.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.

For my career, I wouldn't go racing if I didn't enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I just didn't want a boss. The minute you're a CEO, you have a pile of bosses, and you're working 7/24, and you're on everyone's radar all the time.

What I don't like is the way people automatically think I am a kept woman, that he pays my expenses. This puts me in a rage. I've always paid my own way, even while living in his mansion. I've kept an apartment of my own. In fact, I not only buy my own clothes, but many of Hef's, too - he just hates to shop.

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

I was raised to be independent.

I basically raised myself.

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.

I never liked pep rallies. I found school spirit hard to deal with. I am much more oriented towards the individual.

I believe a real democracy can only flourish when you have your own nation state, your own identity, even your own flag you can rally around.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.

'Freedom' is my big buzzword in life. It's just my favorite word. And I think so many of my choices have been about gaining freedom.

Everybody is their own galaxy, their own separate entity.

I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.

All decisions at the Garden I make on my own.

I tell people all the time: All I need is gas money.

No one knows my gender more than I do. You do not know my gender better than I do. A doctor doesn't know it better than I do. My parents don't know it better than I do. No one experiences my gender in the way that I experience it.