Suzanne Vega Quotes

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
Suzanne Vega

Humor, Smart, Character

You have to defend your honor. And your family.
Suzanne Vega

Family, Honor, Defend

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.
Suzanne Vega

Life, Writing, Sense

I still consider myself a feminist.
Suzanne Vega

Consider, Feminist

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.
Suzanne Vega

Mother, Sex, Woman

Some girls are taught to be sexy.
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A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
Suzanne Vega

Writing, Civilized, Terribly

Don't make a threat and then not do it.
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Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.
Suzanne Vega

Crazy, Fight, Mean

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.
Suzanne Vega

Different, Weird, Knew

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
Suzanne Vega

Gender, Defining

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.
Suzanne Vega

Time, Reality, Living

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.
Suzanne Vega

Feeling, Black, Big

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.
Suzanne Vega

Making, Stories, Characters

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.
Suzanne Vega

Work, Political, However

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.
Suzanne Vega

Best, Respect, Business

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
Suzanne Vega

Time, Learning, End

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
Suzanne Vega

Mother, Wife, Else

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
Suzanne Vega

Emotions, Intellect, Respond

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.
Suzanne Vega

Society, Someone, Writing

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.
Suzanne Vega

Character, Sleep, Control

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.
Suzanne Vega

Life, Experience, Smart

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.
Suzanne Vega

Hurting, Rules, Fights

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.
Suzanne Vega

Someone, Human, Thought

When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.
Suzanne Vega

Life, Happy, Before

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Nationality: American

Born: July 11, 1959

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