Quotes About Autonomy

I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.

Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.

If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off I mean that if people feel they have control over their lives, they call in for fewer sick days from work. They have a lesser probability of having a heart attack or stroke. They live longer. They're happier.

I don't like asking people for things, so if I can do it myself, that's the mindset I have. My dad is very much a do-it-yourself kind of person, so I had a strong sense of independence.

Being fat doesn't necessarily make me feel stronger. What makes me feel strong is knowing that I can live my life and be who I want to be.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

I don't want to have anyone else to do my housework. I've always done it myself. I believe you should do it yourself. I feel very strongly about that.

I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.

I rarely asks people for advice or permission when I'm planning on doing something I feel strongly about. That only opens the plan up to be crapped on.

My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.

I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's affairs.

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.

I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.

I try to grow my management team as entrepreneurs, make the structure decentralized.

What's been unique about our acquisition is that Google is leaving us independent. That actually means that the company is structured the same... We really are a company within a company.

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.

We're a movement of many people who are uniting from the bottom up. We don't have structures, hierarchies, bosses, secretaries... No one gives us orders.

I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.

I've always been the one who struggled financially, so now it's so cool that I can make my own money and do whatever I want with it.

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

There's a fine line between saying, 'You can't tell me what I can and can't do,' and taking on board people's opinions.