"I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I’m not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect."
― Shirley Manson
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Respect
More From Shirley Manson
- "And then there’s all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I’m always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle."
- "A lot of people these days are not music lovers – they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in."
- "I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters – I’m from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!"
More In Respect
- "Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world."― John Polkinghorne
- "More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity."― Barbara Boxer
- "Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They’re building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well."― Jim Hunt