Quotes About Autonomy

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.

I would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent.

You can ask me about my beliefs on things; that's cool. But I think to lump in and say, You follow this person, so then, wow, who are you?' Ask me who I am.

If I wrestle in 2020, I want it to be my own decision and not the IOC's.

If I want to wrestle, I should be able to wrestle. If I want to be sexy, I should be allowed to be sexy. If I want to come out wearing a potato sack, I should be allowed to do that too.

It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players.

Regardless of anything, I'm gonna write my own story and my own ending.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

I'm my own boss, my own editor, my own shooter, my own writer, everything. This is all stuff I learned through trial and error... failing at a lot of things has taught me how to succeed at them eventually... you roll with the punches.

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.

always thought a soul was private, but it appears it can be colonized against your will if you don't watch out.