American - Musician | August 22, 1963 -
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
Tori Amos
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I don't kid around.
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I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.
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The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.
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When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.
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There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.
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I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.
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