Get off the cross, we need the wood.
TORI AMOSWomanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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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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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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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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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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Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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