Fiona Apple Quotes

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman dependent upon him economically as the only method open to him of making himself necessary to her. Since in the beginning woman would not become his willing slave, he has wrought through the centuries a society in which woman must serve him if she is to survive.

I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.

I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in the white man's house, begging the white man for a job, for food, clothing and shelter. And then after the white man provides him with all of these things, he turns around and get - has the nerve to get angry at the white man when the white man tries to control his life.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

I just can't see either a man or a woman in a dependency position, because from this sort of relationship flows a feeling of superiority on one side and inferiority on the other, and that's a form of slow poison. As I see it, men wouldn't want somebody inferior to them unless they felt inadequate themselves. They're intimidated by a mature woman.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.

In my twenties, my dad was paying half my rent and my ex boyfriend was paying the other half. I wasn't in a good place!

I need you,ʺ said Lissa. ʺI hear that from women a lot,ʺ said Adrian.

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

If Hunter hadn't been there, I would've picked up the phone to call Eric. I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right? But I couldn't leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would've felt terrible if I'd ask Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn't think anything about it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam.

In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to.

A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.

Recipients of transfers tend to become less self-reliant and more dependent on government payments. When people can get support without exercising their own abilities to discover and respond to opportunities for earning income, those abilities atrophy. People forget - or never learn in the first place - how to help themselves, and eventually some of them simply accept their helplessness.

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, "Why would I carry my phone around?" And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.

You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.