Actions Quotes Logo

Kim Gordon Quotes

It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending.

Every woman knows what I'm talking about when I say girls grow up with a desire to please, to cede t...

Show More
Girl in a Band

How was she not the quintessential woman in our culture, compulsively pleasing others in order to ac...

Show More

Families are like little villages. You know where everything is, you know how everything works, your...

Show More

Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to...

Show More

I remember how the book talked about the pressure to please and be perfect that every woman falls in...

Show More
Girl in a Band

When people ask me what L.A. was like in the sixties, I tell them there wasn't as much terrible stuc...

Show More

That stage in life when older people assume that just because you've graduated college you know who ...

Show More
Girl in a Band

Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minute...

Show More

It wasn't some Puritan thing. Straight-edge was asking adherents to take control of their lives, not...

Show More

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's gre...

Show More

All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now.

Girl in a Band

. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.

I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too m...

Show More

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold ...

Show More

Related Authors

Picture of Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon

Musician

Born: 1953-04-28

Died: N/A

Kim Althea Gordon (1953 Apr 28) is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth.More