Quotes About Autonomy

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

'Drawn & Quarterly' has always given me complete editorial control over my books and comics, so any decision about what to include or exclude from the book was my own.

At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.

I do whatever appeals to me. I have always made my own choices.

I'm creating my own future.

I enjoy being an actor in my own movies.

I don't deal well with being told what to wear and sit on a mark. It just feels like my soul is being ripped out.

There's a lot around us that we can't control, but my body, my mind, and my soul are pretty much the only things that I can.

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

I certainly didn't have a nanny.

We hear some people talk about the nanny state and, actually, we don't want to be telling people how to bring up their children, or how to be parents.

Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.

You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.

When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

This is the 21st century, and you cannot hold a nation captive against their will.

I care more about my economy, national security, and fiscal conservatism than I do about what other women do with their bodies. It's not my place, and I don't believe it's the government's place, to make such decisions.

Nationalism can be a destructive force when it promotes intolerance and division. But it can also be a force for good, when it seeks to defend local autonomy against the homogenizing forces of larger entities.