Quotes About Autonomy

Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.

If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.

Smaller movies are great because you don't have to argue with so many people all the time. But really I like arguing so there's a balance either way.

If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.

I can have a whole year off. I'm really lucky because I'm my own boss, so I make the rules and get to choose when I take time off.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.

By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.

I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.

Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves?

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.

I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.

Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house - or where I'd been every time I returned - got old quickly.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.