Charli XCX Quotes

When I got signed, I had just turned 16. I felt like I had to continuously have these confrontations with older men who were doubting my ideas because I was a woman, because I was 16.

Charli XCX

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• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

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• As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.

  

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• Men have not stacked the decks against women.

  

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• In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

  

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• Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

  

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• Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

  

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• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  

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• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

  

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• We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

  

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  Edgar Allan Poe
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• When I got signed, I had just turned 16. I felt like I had to continuously have these confrontations with older men who were doubting my ideas because I was a woman, because I was 16.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Men