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My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.

Tori Amos

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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Conversation Interviews Sometimes
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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Believe Order Powerful
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Follow Heart Room
I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
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Crew Reading Thinking
You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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People Too Much Trying
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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Emotional Song Together
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Mistress Trying Wife
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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Believe Flying Home
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Able Men Women Younger
I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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Long Thinking Together

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.

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My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.

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