Quotes About Autonomy

I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.

I like a round nail and not too long. I like to have control of what I do with my hands. I don't want hands longer than my legs.

It really bothers me when a guy is controlling. Dont just say Im picking the place - ask me where I want to go!

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational!

I would prefer not to be living with anyone, really. Like, as much as I care for my special friend, I don't want to live with her.

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

Do we want something more from our car? ... To perhaps be a partner, a coach, someone that can use their understanding of the situation to help us reach our potential.

Every member of Congress and every Senator kind of runs their own race with their own message because they don't want to necessarily have dictated from the White House what that message should be.

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

I enjoy been on holidays because you can do whatever you want and people can't say anything to you.

Influence means power, and I don't want that. Whatever happens, here we do our own thing and put it out there for people to take or leave. We're not doing anything to influence them.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.

You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.

Freedom is having real choice. This offers a limited amount of choices. This is participating in a very imperfect system that we're desperately hanging onto, that we don't want to see further eroded.

I can do what I want. And I always do, do what I want.

People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.

I don't really do very well when I'm sent somewhere. A lot of magazines want to send you somewhere to do something. They want you to stow away on a ship, or something like that.

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.