Quotes About Autonomy

How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men?

There comes a time in every man's life when he's gotta handle up on his own. Can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze, Please...they got problems of their own.

Don't count on others to hand your life to you.

Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.

I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.

Don't get in my personal life.

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.

You should never ever ever have somebody else who is the foundation of your life. You need to be the foundation of your own sh*t.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.

I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.

Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

I want a man in my life, not in my house.

Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life.

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.