Suzanne Vega Quotes

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• Don't make a threat and then not do it.
• I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.
• When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more…
• 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…
• A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a…
• Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.
• My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
• Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
• Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly…
• It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
• I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
• How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.
• Don't uncork what you can't contain
• 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…
• So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over…
• I was always inventing characters and making up stories.
• 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…
• Some girls are taught to be sexy.
• I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying…
• I still consider myself a feminist.

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