Shirley Manson quotes - page 3

I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life. (Shirley Manson)
I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute. View quote
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The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down. View quote
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We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect. View quote
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I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced. View quote
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The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression. View quote
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I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper. View quote
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I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities. View quote
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It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate. View quote
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A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet. View quote
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I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty. (Shirley Manson)
I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. View quote
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It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging. View quote
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You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men. View quote
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When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview. View quote
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I get female groupies, but I don't get male groupies. I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action -- as we'd say in Scotland. If I go anywhere near most of our male following, they are freaked. Absolutely freaked. I think my height has got a lot to do with it. I'm really tall. I'm five-eight, and with heels, I'm six foot, so people are like. 'Whoa, Amazon' People are a wee taken aback by that 'cause I think people expect me to be small. View quote
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