Suzanne Vega

“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.”

“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.”

“I was always inventing characters and making up stories.”

“A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.”

“Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.”

“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.”