Quotes About Autonomy

And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you and can tell you how to live your life

Consent to petting isn't consent to penetration.

Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas – and you have to work through it all.

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too.

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.