Yoko Ono Quotes

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.

not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

I've been beaten, I've been bruised, I was left for dead as well.

I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.

ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.