I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo -… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was like one of the boys in school who flap their legs frantically under the desk. I always had this weird… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I never had any dates. I never really had any boyfriends. I was the girl who did the guys' homework. I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
That whole thing about masturbating. Most girls, I guess nobody has to tell them, they just figure it out. I had to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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