Gerard doesn’t tell me what to do. We discuss everything as a couple, as I imagine most partners do. We have a beautiful relationship and one of mutual trust.
SHAKIRAI came to understand that I’m never going to be the perfect mother, but I’m going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.
More Shakira Quotes
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Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
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The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
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I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.
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My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.
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I was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!
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In the full light of day, I don’t want to think about the sunset.
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I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
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I feel like I’m on an anthropological mission.
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I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain’s face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn’t see his face.
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Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
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And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
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Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I’m definitely the disciplinarian.
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I just think that it’s very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.
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I didn’t expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
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If the fastest growing population in this country is Latino, that means we are the future of this country. And, we have proven we have talent. Now we need the tools to succeed.
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