"My mother was a single working mother; she……" — Natalie Merchant
"My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to."
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28 Quotes by Natalie Merchant
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.
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I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I…
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I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I…
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I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the…
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Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.
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I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on…
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would…
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
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I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
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