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" You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily. "
Tori Amos
Learning
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" 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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" For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story. "
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" I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it. "
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" I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful. "
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" 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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" If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness. "
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" If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them? "
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