Alice Glass quotes

“My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others. For a multitude of reasons both professional and personal I no longer feel that this is possible within [Crystal Castles]. Although this is the end of the band, I hope my fans will embrace me as a solo artist in the same way they have embraced Crystal Castles.”
-- Alice Glass

Source : FaceBook post by Alice Glass from Oct 08, 2014

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“I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.”
-- Alice Glass

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“My look is more grandmother’s leftovers than ***** chic.”
-- Alice Glass

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“Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.”
-- Alice Glass

Source : "Crystal Castles". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 8, 2012.

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“I'm feminine: I'm wearing a skirt, I own a bra. I think that whole big blonde look has been taken over by transsexuals now. I'm a natural blonde, but that blonde hair, big ***** idea of what men want, it's now really unfeminine.”
-- Alice Glass

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“My look is more grandmother’s leftovers than heroin chic.”
-- Alice Glass

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“I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school until junior high. I don't believe in transmigration or anything like that. I have resentment for being forced to believe in something. I will always think of the church as an institution and not a comfort.”
-- Alice Glass

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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“No one should say whether others should breed or not, that would go against how I feel a woman has the right to choose. Everyone has the right to feel regret.”
-- Alice Glass

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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“The worst way of oppression involve exploitation of children, preying on vulnerability, denying others the right to live safely, and denying people of their right to education. Two-thirds of the world's illiterate are women. Sixty-six percent of countries have no laws to protect women from domestic abuse, and battery is the largest cause of injury to women in America.”
-- Alice Glass

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander”

“There is no future for a people who deny their past.”

“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”

“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”

“The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.”

“Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

“Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.”