Quotes About Autonomy

I bought dresses. I got underwear. I have a purse. Now this man I've never met wants me to be married, too. Who made these people God?" "Themselves, apparently.

People stubbornly lived their lives as they wanted, without regard to me, to an amazing degree.

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

Ladies, you have to love yourself... you don't always have to have a man.

The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.

The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.

I think sometimes when you go to a space you might like it, but the landlord is expecting something different from you. Our concept is very specific to us, so we need to have the freedom of doing it.

I don't do meetings.

I've never been much for becoming a member of a group.

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

In the U.S. we have the mentality that you can make it on your own.

The idea of women having a complete hold on their lives is still alien in a lot of places. So, it is important that we keep telling such stories where women are shown both physically and mentally powerful.

Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong!

My biggest mentor is myself, I've always felt.

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

At some point, an industry has to either succeed or fail on its own merits.

At the end of the day all I've ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.

It's your career, your face, your name. You have to be in control because if something gets messed up or something doesn't look how you want it to, you're the only one to blame.

I'm not going to tell Messi how to live his life - or anyone else, for that matter.

I don't want people messing with my sound, my stuff.

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

People try to change up my method, but I'm gonna keep doing it the same way I've been doing it: going in the room by myself and making a song.