Quotes About Autonomy

I don't share.

I don't like taking orders.

I don't like being told what to do.

I felt free and therefore I was free.

She is giving me my life back and not claiming it for herself as so many of the women you love do claim.

You spend a whole life of non-interference with the wishes of others, including politicians and the rich, and nobody bothers you and you cut along and make it your own way.

Something Dylan and I really don't care much for is leaning into the identical twin thing. It doesn't make sense.

I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there's no democracy.

I'm a different person who's not my father or my mother. I want to be treated differently from them. I am myself, Twinkle Khanna. I am proud of being the daughter of such illustrious parents, but I would not like to be compared with them time and again.

I think twins can sometimes be shoved into the same mold and they can start to feel like they're not being given a chance to develop their own identities.

It seems kosher and OK to treat women as objects because the business of cinema is about images and when you have fragmented images of a woman's bosom and her swiveling hip and her twisting navel, it robs the woman of all autonomy and subjects her to the male gaze.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

I heard Cher say, 'I answer to two people: Myself and God.' I say, 'I only answer to me. I'm not sure I appreciate God's opinion.'

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

Two people, no matter how close, cannot be one person, ever.

For me, a relationship is not about two people coming and completing each other.

The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

I am really not the relationship type.

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

When I write a novel, I am God at my own typewriter, and there is nobody in between. But when I write a screenplay, it must be a compromise because there are so many elements which are outside the writer's province.

I did work and bought all my own clothes and shoes since I was 9 years old. That's not a typical American childhood life.

I hate the new word processors that want to tell you, as you're typing, that you made a mistake. I have to turn off all that crap. It's like, shut up - I'm thinking now. I will worry about that sort of error later. I'm a human being. I can still read this, even though it's wrong. You stupid machine, the fact that you can't is irrelevant to me.