Quotes About Autonomy

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body. If women's reproductive rights come under attack, I will be standing up for women.

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

I don't want to wear what every other women wears. I won't be dictated to.

Women should be someone and not something.

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved-

Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.

I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress.

I'm not sponsored by anybody but myself... I'm not sponsored by the PAP.

Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.

The ability to get sponsors on your own and not have to rely on the amount that Reebok dictates to you was a huge factor. I'd be straight up lying if I said it wasn't a very big part of my decision to go to Bellator.

You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

I don't want to answer questions about my favourite food or holiday spot.

People don't want to be put on the spot over whether or not they like you, they want to come to that conclusion themselves. It's ok to let someone know you're interested, but there's no need to go any further than that.