Doctors didn't know if I would survive. The cancer was too big to operate on, so they blitzed it with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Viv Albertine More Quotes by Viv Albertine More Quotes From Viv Albertine We grew up during the 'peace and love' of the 1960s, only to discover that there are wars everywhere, and love and romance is a con. Viv Albertine discover only love peace Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose. Viv Albertine lose person love-is love It is soul-destroying to have your work and physical appearance picked to pieces. Viv Albertine physical your appearance work You've got one life: find your voice within it. Viv Albertine your you voice life I've had two great loves: my mother and my daughter. Viv Albertine great daughter mother two I read a lot when I was young. All the obvious, all the greats, from 'Le Grand Meaulnes,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' 'Fear and Loathing,' 'Catcher in the Rye,' 'The Bell Jar,' 'The Female Eunuch,' 'Valley of the Dolls,' 'The Feminine Mystique,' Tom Wolfe. Then, film took over for me. Film was so exciting in the '70s. Viv Albertine over me young fear Strive to be different and better than what is already out there if you are creating - Benjamin Clementine does that. Viv Albertine be-different better you different I'm very true to the old punk ethics of honesty and truthfulness and integrity... and still be authentic. Viv Albertine true ethics honesty integrity I think I function well in most parts of my life but possibly not in that emotional side of my life. Viv Albertine my-life think emotional life People think you're vulnerable when you tell the truth, but it's never hurt me. Viv Albertine me you truth people People say you mellow as you get older, and I really haven't. Viv Albertine people-say say you people There was an angry wave in the '70s, a strong feminist angry wave. I remember thinking - oh my God - I thought it was the beginning of something, and it all went quiet. Viv Albertine angry god remember thinking I hate to say it, but one of the worst things you could be called when I was younger was unfeminine. Viv Albertine say things you hate We used to have massively long discussions about how we should stand on stage. Should we stand with our legs apart? No, all the guys with guitars in skinny jeans stand with their legs apart, and you'd think, 'We can't stand like that.' We'd spend hours and hours, days and days, discussing how to stand. Viv Albertine stand think you long Look at Kate Bush, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono - three really private people, but when they're on stage or when they're singing, they let go like no one else. Viv Albertine go look singing people I think sometimes men find it easier to be a carer than an accessory. I mean, most women I know in bands are pretty lonely. Guys don't want to travel around with you. I know loads of women who do it, but guys don't do it. They're not brought up for it. Viv Albertine you women men travel The more blows you have in life, the better, because it means you're challenging yourself. Viv Albertine yourself better you life I've had to fight for everything. Viv Albertine had fight everything I'm still angry at so much - class, gender, society, the way we are constantly mentally coerced into behaving a certain way without us even knowing it. I feel so oppressed by the weight of it all that I just want to blow a hole in it all. Viv Albertine feel gender angry society When you've fought and fought to keep positive and to keep creative even though there was not a space to be creative, well, you show me any human who is not angry after 60 years of that. Viv Albertine me you angry positive
