Quotes About Autonomy

I don't think a lot of artists have the freedom that I have when it comes to dressing in general.

I've come to the conclusion that you shouldn't have to see a genetic counselor. It should be a choice.

It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.

I want to be a genuine artist who has a say in what I do.

I genuinely have to work - I don't have enough money not to. But the last thing I would want is to be looked after.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

My own foundation concentrates on women's economic empowerment on the basis that if women have their own money and are able to support themselves, they can make choices about what happens to them in their lives, about whether they have education, whether they get married, and what happens to their children.

I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.

There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.

You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

I'll get married when I'm bloody ready!

That whole getting married live, having the fans pick the cake, all that stuff... That was my idea.

Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.

Freedom is such a gift.

I'm a fashion designer. I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.

I think there's always a way to bring something, even if it is just the girlfriend role, as long as you're playing it with an idea of who that person is on their own, away from the male character.

A lot of the things I get sent are the girlfriend or the wife or the assistant, and those are not that exciting to me.

Sometimes it's nice when you go out on the road, and you come back, and your girlfriend's left you. You have complete freedom at that point.

I've always been very clear: I never want to be known just as somebody's girlfriend.

I would rather be single than be someone's girlfriend because that's not my identity.

We didn't want to be the girlfriends of the Beatles. We wanted to be the Beatles.

I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.

I don't want to be called one of Priyank Sharma's girlfriends.

I do not have to depend on a man to give me bread.