Quotes About Autonomy

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

I'm very independent.

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.

I'm a pretty serious Independent.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

I'm very independent. I'm not sure how I'd deal with someone who wanted to be with me 24/7.

Well, I'm an independent person.

When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

I'm a very independent woman.

I am a seriously independent woman and I want people to know that.

I tried to do things independently with each child.

At 14 I had no choice but to live with my brother, on our own, without adults, with all the responsibilities, decisions and day-to-day practicalities of living independently. I had, though, the joy of earning my own money.

When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.

Men do not sufficiently realise that their future is in their own hands.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

once one claims that one knows what others need better than they know it themselves, one is "in a position to ignore the actual wishes of men or societies, to bully, oppress, torture them in the name, and on behalf of their 'real' selves Ã¢â'¬Â¦ albeit often submerged and inarticulate.

They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No body will be argued into slavery.6

Never follow the crowd.

For the one belief we all carry with us, no matter how rational we claim to be, is a belief in our own free will.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Amma experienced commitment to one person as imprisonment, she hadn't left home for a life of freedom and adventure to end up chained to another person's desires