Quotes About Autonomy

When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.

One thing that was drummed into me when I was younger is that you have to make your own way in life, that you mustn't expect anyone else to support you.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

It is not the government's right to tell you what to inject into your body.

What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own terms.

You can control what you put in your body, how you take care of yourself, how much you work. You have to control what you can.

It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.

If you want to eat pizza, have the pizza. If you want to run 5 miles up a hill, cool, go run. Do whatever you want to do, but don't let the size of your body and other people's opinions about you stop you from living the life you deserve.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.

When someone else is making money off of you and using your body, you need to step off the carousel.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

My family taught me something: I don't ask. What's yours, you do not ask for.

In this game you can waste a lot of energy wondering about other people's opinions when the one that actually counts is yours. Because that's your job, to lead and to manage.

Whoever wants to be caught up in my life, first of all, you should be living yours because I'm damn sure not worried about your life.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.