"I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.“

-Tori Amos

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Tori Amos quote about mom: "I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me."

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"I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols."

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"There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often."

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"There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s."

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"My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights."

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"The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding."

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"I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object."

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"Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything."

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