Sharmila Tagore Quotes

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

I get to teach my daughter what I've learned. I don't want her to feel she has to be a certain way to impress society. If she wants to spit or go play some ball, I'll be so proud, because that's who I am, and that's a real person.

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I love wearing makeup! It's just that if you choose not to wear it, that's OK. And if you choose to wear it, that's OK as well.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

This is a free country, and to each their own.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.

A necessary corollary of giving individuals freedom to choose how to conduct their lives is acceptance of the fact that different individuals will make different choices.