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Joan Armatrading

"You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas."

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"You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas."

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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."

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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."

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"I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."

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"It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners."

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

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"If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe."

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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"

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"I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives."

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"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."

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"I hate women because they always know where things are."

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"Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like."
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"All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together."
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"Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it."
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"So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing."
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"This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well."
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"So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time."
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"Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that."
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"It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it."
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"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."
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"Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song."
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