Quotes About Autonomy

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

I'm not interested in constraining human beings like rats in a laboratory.

I hate seeing people getting a raw deal and artists not being in control of what they are doing. It happens all the time.

Take Google Maps or Waze. On the one hand, they amplify human ability - you are able to reach your destination faster and more easily. But at the same time, you are shifting the authority to the algorithm and losing your ability to find your own way.

I've reached that enviable state in life in which I can do pretty much what I want.

I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.

People can press your buttons and make you react... but it's not under your control.

I want my readers to find their own way.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.

Belize is not ready for self-government.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

In real life, there's nobody more out than Sean. It was just in the press that he didn't want to say one way or another. I think he just felt it was nobody's business, but I feel like he came to it in his own time.

I am still very independent in my real life, and that's why I'm always trying to get out of relationships prematurely.

New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters.

As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people know it's out there, they can make up their own minds whether they want to read it.

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

Sometimes the hardest decision is to say no to something, and I think when you're less confident or when you're younger, you say yes to everything, and as you get older, you realise you don't need to.

If I want to stay at home watching movies, I do that. If I want to take my bike out and go on a one-month holiday, I do that. To do all these things, it's first of all important for me to realise that I need to live my life.

But I think as you grow up, you realise that actually, if you want to dress sexy there's nothing wrong with that - it's your prerogative as a woman to dress however you want.

People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.

There was a time before my O-levels when I remember thinking I used to study hard and work hard to please my mother, like most young children. And then I realised I'm doing this for me.

I'm very realistic about who's coming to my defense. I am my defense.