My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
From Patti Smith
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.
One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.
You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.
My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.
I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
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.
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