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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

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It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

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During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

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The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

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I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

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I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 9th, 1941

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