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

  

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• Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

  

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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