Quotes About Autonomy

If I chose to live a bisexual life or I'm gay or whatever, that's my business.

I always chose the byline.

I chose my own path because that was the only way.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

I chose to go to CAA. I think me becoming my own man is going to make it easier, honestly.

I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.

I have chosen not to have children.

Too many women are being chosen by men that they don't choose.

When I was growing up with Chris, I was the little brother that was kind of annoying: 'Can I come?' 'Get out of here.' 'Can I play?' 'Get out of here.' So that's our relationship. I just do my own thing. I leave him alone.

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

I think most women do not want to be treated as sort of a special class of citizen.

The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.

I don't write about love because it makes for easy, passive heroes. I write about how love makes my characters more autonomous, more self-possessed, more opinionated and powerful. I write about characters who pursue relationships that make them the people they want to become. I write about love as a superpower.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

I'm the Rated-R Superstar. I do what I want when I want.

I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's... I will never be a 'Mrs. Blabidyblah!'

Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.

I don't need adult supervision.

Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

Creating a flexible working culture is about trust. How much can your employees rely on each other to get the job done without the benefit of supervision?

I want to create my own living space and grow my own food instead of paying someone to supply those for me.

We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.