"I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that."

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Source : "Keeping it Unreal: In the Studio with Chvrches". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2015.

Lauren Mayberry

#Doors Quotes #Feminist Quotes #Kind Quotes

“The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with my job. I figured I would write a few funny things a few times a week until I had enough material to do stand-up. After two or three weeks, I emailed it to some friends. They emailed it to other friends, and more people started reading. Eventually, I realized that stand-up was scary and it would be much easier to just keep writing this stuff at work.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”
“For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.”
“You can't make people stop loving each other just because a law says it's wrong.”

Source : Liz Kessler (2016). “Emily Windsnap: Six Swishy Tails of Land and Sea”, p.140, Candlewick Press
“And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.”
“Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.”

Source : "Justice For Sale". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 19, 2010.
“Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, then idiot with none.”
“I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.”

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