Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.
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For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself. I made a conscious choice when I put (the song) 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote reflects the importance of expressing one's emotions and taking control of one's narrative.
In this quote, Tori Amos speaks about her journey of overcoming the suppression of her emotions and experiences. By choosing to express herself through her song 'Me and a Gun', she illustrates a powerful shift from victimhood to empowerment, emphasizing the necessity of confronting and articulating one's pain instead of hiding it away.
Themes
EmotionsEmpowermentSelf-ExpressionHealingVictimhood
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about resilience, one might use this quote to highlight the importance of expressing inner turmoil as a step toward healing.
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If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.
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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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From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She’s been everybody else’s girl maybe one day she’ll be her own.
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