I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance.
and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to sayand she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her movesand m...
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. -Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it...
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.
I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to...
I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.
a lesson must be livedin order to be learnedand the clarity to see and stop this nowthat is what i've earned
Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.
I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kin...
Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon.
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.