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[Welcome To Riot Grrrl Online]
Other Grrrl Quotes/Quotes By Men "I cut off a rubber dick in context of talking about gang rape. It's a cathartic ritual; it makes us feel like we are getting some kind of revenge. No, we're not cutting off any real dicks."---Lynn Breedlove, Tribe 8 The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?---Joan Jett "Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up".--Joan Jett What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.---Chrissie Hynde "Don't think that sticking your boobs out and trying to look fuckable will help. Remember your in a rock and roll band. It's not "Fuck Me", It's "Fuck You!"---Chrissie Hynde "Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did."--Chrissy Hynde I'm very much an advocate of women becoming familiar and comfortable with guns. They have every right to carry a gun and blow the motherfucking head off any guy who climbs in your window or fucks with you in any way.---Valerie Agnew, 7 year bitch Shimmer like a girl should.---Nina Gordon, Veruca Salt "I hate them. I think they're evil. Just imagine if anyone ever tried to exhume your body in 20 years all that they would find is a pile of dust and two bags of plastic saline/silicone...gross. (feelings on breast implants)"--Fairuza Balk "Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."--Margaret Mead "They get you they stick your ass in pink the minute you're born. I was redecorating my kitchen and it said,"The color pink inspires passivity" I damn near went through the roof on that one. They stick your ass in pink and give you a Barbie doll with fucking mutilated feet, that's the first thing they stick in your head. They fuck with your head your whole fucking growing up years."--Rosanne "O, siren, with the mocking tongue! O beauty, lily-sweet and white! I see her, slim and fair and young. And ah! I cannot sleep tonight."--Marie Madeleine "I love my love with an a, Because she is a queen I love my love and a a is the best of them Think well and be a king, Think more and think again"--Gertrude Stein "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."--Cheris Kramare, Paula Treichler "Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy."--Aimee Mann "Being a female, the crowds tend to expect a little less. I come out in really tight clothing and lots of cleavage showing. So if anyone was going to get a beer or smoke a cigarette, they're going to sit down. Two songs later they're going to forget that I have tits and think, 'Hey, great music.' There's a science to the whole thing."--Lennon Murphy "I was born into the body of an artist, a body of adversity. My body fights against itself and I fight against the world."--Karyn Crisis "The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'"--Shirley Chisholm "The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it."--Elaine Agather "I'm more inspired by certain artists that I vibe with their space. I understand where they're coming from, or they have a sort of honesty that I can relate to. That inspires me to be honest. Most of the stuff I write comes from my journal, and poetry, and personal thought experience. As far as writers, I'm very influenced by a lot of poets, and Malcom McLaren, 'cause they are extremely honest, and I love the way words can create such a visual image. The honest of some women have inspired me, such as Stevie Nicks and Annie Lennox, and more recently women like Tori Amos and Erika Badu are extremely honest where they're coming from - at least to me. Very visual lyrically."--Free Dominguez "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."--Eleanor Roosevelt "Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!"--Elizabeth Barret Browning "Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health."--Gloria Steinem "One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar."--Helen Keller "Our Situation was different to the one the American Riot Grrrls were responding to. The Underground in London had deteriorated totally, there wasn't really much of an alternative... 'indie' just became an abstract term for a style of music, not ideas or values, 'cause they were all signing to major labels. The notion of selling out wasn't important. Punk rock wasn't important. Fanzines were seen as a sad joke so we had to explain stuff that might have been obvious to American kids but was alien to young British kids. The reasons for being independent were snorted at."--Jo Of Huggy Bear "The best conversation I had after a show was about astronomy, which has inspired me to learn about the stars... Y'see we are capable of talking without it being overtly sexual or political."--Karen Of Huggy Bear "We did women-only shows to challenge the acceptance of violence against women on all levels. The women as the centre of things. Seperatist shows do not revolve around stopping boys from coming to shows- they are a way of bringing women/girls together and actually feeling different for our pleasure."--Niki Of Huggy Bear "Here in Portland, OR we have witnessed a historic gay civil rights movement in the form of gay marriage. Basic Rights of Oregon, a gay civil rights group, pressured the city council to issue same sex marriage liscences, and they legally found they were bound to do so. So far over 1,000 gay couples have been married here, despite the fact that anti-gay protesters harassed them as they waited in line for their liscences. It was a beautiful thing so see so many gay faces simply lining up for one of their basic civil rights - I think it put a very positive image for the world to see."--Corin Tucker "How things aren't what they seem. During the early riot grrrl '90's, a lot of people i hung out with, we talked about privilege and oppression alot, which is important."--Allison Wolfe "To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power."--Jane Fonda "Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted."--Ellen Glasgow "The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words."--Anne Morrow Lindbergh "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."--Abbie Hoffman "The world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes"--Charlotte Mew "A purple blot against the dead white door In my friend's rooms, bathed in their vile pink light, I had not noticed her before She snatched my eyes and threw them back to me: She did not speak till we came out into the night, Paused at this bench beside the klosk on the quay. "--Charlotte Mew "We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person."--Anne Heche "Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more."--Anne Heche "If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me."--Drew Barrymore "Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths."--Drew Barrymore "I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn't trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn't think of myself as liberated, and I don't believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn't know any other way to be, or any other way to live."--Bettie Page "I never was the girl next door"--Bettie Page "There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences -- I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself."--Mary Tyler Moore "Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now - a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today."--Mary Tyler Moore "[to a heckler] Stop at a drug store, buy a condom, and put it over your head. If you act like a dick, you might as well dress like one."--Rosie O'Donnell from her stand-up routines "I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco."--Rosie O'Donnell "I don't want to change. I don't ever want to be a stuck-up asshole. I mean, some people probably think I am now, but I don't care what they think, because I know I'm not. I'm a down to earth person. I always have time for my fans. I don't care who they are, what they look like, if they're rich or poor, pretty or ugly. I always have time for them. I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for them, and I'll never forget that."--Lita Ford "To this day my favorite albums are heavy metal albums."--Lita Ford "Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard...OH BONDAGE UP YRS!"---Poly Styrene "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."--Frank Herbert "The future of rock belongs to women."--Kurt Cobain "The basis of optimism is sheer terror."--Oscar Wilde "Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."--André Dubus "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another."--Jonathan Swift "The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window."--Stephen King "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."--Dalai Lama "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."--Mohandas Gandhi "Man has no greater enemy than himself."--Francesco Petrarch "Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure."--Francesco Petrarch "Suspicion is the cancer of friendship."--Francesco Petrarch "Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."--Francesco Petrarch
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