Quotes About Autonomy

We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

Reproductive rights are about body and medical autonomy: our collective and deeply personal right to choose what we want to do to/with our bodies. Trans people and feminists should be building natural alliances here.

I'm not a Republican.

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

It was important to me that Beau and Hunter felt our family was whole, and that meant we got to define our relationship, not anyone else.

I believe in letting a guy live the way he wants to if he doesn't hurt anyone.

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

We women feel we are here to serve. That's the mistake we make. We may have children, husbands, lovers, bills, responsibility. Those things don't own us, but too often we let them.

I don't do husbands. I don't do children.

Id avoided the business as much as I could because of how little I was interested in being constantly associated with my parents.

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.

I think it's very important to do things the way you want to do them and be true to yourself, your own goals, and your own ideals.

Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.

It's a lot of fun to identify with a character who lives by their own rules.

I can't give up my own identity.

Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.

One doesn't want one's identity coerced.

I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms.

I'm completely free of the ill effects of factional influence.

I'm not trying to clean my image to make anyone happy.

I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.

I really like doing stand-up, because it gives you an immense amount of freedom. You haven't got anyone telling you what to do. It's great to have that much power over what you do. You don't have that in television.