Quotes About Autonomy

The great thing about libertarianism is it really is the American dream: It's the ability of everybody to live their life and build their life according to what they want, so long as they don't hurt anybody else.

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

The greatest luxury is being free.

I don't feel comfortable with the idea that my only gateway into doing what I love to do is auditioning for other people to give me the green light and say that I'm allowed to do it, or that I'm allowed to play this role, or that I'm allowed to be in this movie. I would feel much more comfortable making those opportunities for myself.

Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road.

I've had to wean myself away to make sure that any choices I make are grounded in myself rather than the seeking of approval.

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can't dress no grown man.

I'm a grown man. I'm gonna do what I want to do. If I want to go see my family, I'm going to go see my family.

I would much rather my daughter, when she grows up, do what she wants to do because she wants to do it, not because of what someone else thinks.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

I don't want anybody guarding me. I want to be free; I want to be left alone... I would like to go out there and have no one know me, but at the same time, it would bother me, y'know.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.

A person takes his own path. My father tried to guide me the best way he thought I should go, and it didn't work. I went the way I wanted to.

If I want to make the first move, I want to go after something in my life, I should be able to do that without shame, guilt, or blame.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

I'm for limited government, so stay out of my guns, and you can stay out of my body as well.