Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright. — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated,… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share
I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success. — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
“I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force of so… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that it's completely unrelated to everything that came before. — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Women are denied masturbation even more severely than men and that's another method of control-they're not taught to please themselves… Most women-it takes them… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
