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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’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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Coming Girl Out Winter
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
I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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Art Books Hearing Things
Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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Coming Euphoria Forty
As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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Choices Night Sun
I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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Feelings Sexy Wake Up
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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Aboriginal Art Country Native People
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Able Healing Sitting

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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