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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."

"He's 85 and he's met another woman. Still, at 85, why ever not?"
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"When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs."


"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."


"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."


"To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'."


"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."


"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
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