自我决定

Bonny Hicks appeared to me to be the paradigmatic example of an autonomous, free-choosing individual who decided early on to construct a lifestyle congenial to her idiosyncratic sense of self-expression.

对我而言，彭妮充分体现了一个的人，如何在年轻的时候根据个人的我表现决定她所要的生活方式。