American Quotes

Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.

Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.

Now look, that damned cowboy is President of the United States.

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.

I just write what I want to write.

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.

You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.

I've been out all over the world tranquilizing animals.

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.