Suzanne Vega Quotes
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That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.
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I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.
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It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
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I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.
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You have to defend your honor. And your family.
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Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.
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Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.
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I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.
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Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.
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If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
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Mother my friends are no longer my friends And the games we once played have no meaning I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why So they've left me to my own daydreaming.
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Don't make a threat and then not do it.
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To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.
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Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.
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My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
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Some girls are taught to be sexy.
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Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today.
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And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.
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I still consider myself a feminist.
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I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.
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Today I am a small blue thing Like a marble or an eye
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My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.
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I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
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I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.
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The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.
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My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.
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I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
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It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.
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I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.
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If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.
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