Quotes About Autonomy

To be honest, I think affiliation is anathema - if you're a rock 'n' roller, you're a lone wolf.

I think I'm still a lone wolf, internally. And I always will be.

When I came on in '68, I was really the lone wolf.

I'm more of the lone wolf.

Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

I'm a strong, independent woman.

The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting.

Feminism isn't about curating or policing the boundaries of womanhood.

It's a complicated dynamic sometimes, mothers and daughters. There's this thing of, like, 'This is a model of womanhood for you,' but yet we find so many reasons why we don't want to be like our mother.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

The best form of customer service is self service. Constantly empower customers to get their own answers themselves.

I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

I think that school just isn't for everyone. A lot of people don't learn well when they're - have to sit in a place for eight hours. A lot of people learn best lying in their own bed, teaching themselves from books. And I was a bad student. I was a brat. If I was a teacher, I would not have liked myself.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.