In the 1970s, girls didn't do anything. It wasn't their fault. For me and the other working-class girls I hung around with, our route was plotted - you were a secretary and a wife. I wanted to hitchhike around the world, go on motorbikes, be in bands.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the limitations placed on women in the past and the desire to break free from them.
Viv Albertine's quote illustrates the societal constraints imposed on girls in the 1970s, where traditional roles often relegated them to being secretaries and wives. It highlights a longing for freedom and adventure, representing a broader resistance against societal norms and the pursuit of personal dreams.
In practice
During a women's empowerment event, sharing this quote can inspire young women to pursue their dreams.
I was brought up to be uncompromisingly bloody-minded by my mother. She equipped me, without knowing it, to be someone who is creative rather than an entertainer. Not many girls are brought up like that, to never rely on a man. To not be a housewife, not be a mother.
As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn.
If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value.
Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.
Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.
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