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To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Suzanne Vega

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Suzanne Vega
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: July 11
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Santa Monica
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Suzanne Nadine Vega
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A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
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A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.
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I still consider myself a feminist.
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I was always inventing characters and making up stories.
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I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.
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I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
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When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.
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My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.
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I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.
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That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.
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My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.
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I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.
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I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.
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I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.
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So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.
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Don't make a threat and then not do it.
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In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
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The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.
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If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.
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If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
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