When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me

Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.

And all we are waiting for is something worth waiting for.

If nobody quotes you, you haven't said a thing worth saying.

One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl and when she's born she'll scream and I'll tell her to never stop I will kiss her before I lay her down at night and will tell her a story so she knows how it is and how it must be for her to survive I'll tell her to set things on fire and keep them burning I'll teach her that fire will not consume her that she must use it