"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
Topic(s):
Women
More From Patti Smith
- "From very early on in my childhood – four, five years old – I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected – I was very tall and skinny, and I didn’t look like anybody else, I didn’t even look like any member of my family."
- "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."
- "We tried not to age, but time had its rage."
More In Women
- "I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day."― Heinrich Heine
- "Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women."― Camille Paglia
- "Something that’s such a joy in my life every day – cooking – is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world."― Julia Roberts