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"Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit."

Patti Smith on Women

More quotes about Women

  • "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

    Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

  • "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

    Marilyn Monroe on Women

  • "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

    Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

  • "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

    Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

  • "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

    John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Patti Smith

  • "We tried not to age, but time had its rage."

  • "In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth."

  • "I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business."

  • "I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change."

  • "I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday."

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