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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.

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
I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Call Shrink Want
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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Backstage Saved Stop
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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Age Crystals Hippie
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Ability Church Father
Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
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Looks Naked Sex
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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Giving Pioneers Taught
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
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
An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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Half Laughing Mouths
The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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Away Going Ice Cream Men
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps

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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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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