Great Women Of Rock

Aretha Franklin: "I'm a big woman. I need big hair."

Tina Turner: "Physical strength in a woman...that's what I am."

Alanis Morissette: "What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are."

Liz Phair: "You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage."

Linda Ronstadt: "I have always believed that one learns more from failure than from success."

Sinead O'Connor: "You cannot be a poppy in a tsunami. The more delicate and fragile you are, the tougher you have to act."

Belinda Carlisle: "I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me."

Bonnie Raitt: "I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool."

Chrissie Hynde: "I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress."

Annie Lennox: "I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free."

Joan Jett: "Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything."

Maria Muldaur: "I've been told 'Midnight At The Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the 70's."

Cher: "The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing, and then marry him."

Stevie Nicks: "I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that."

Cher Quotes

"I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage."

"I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me."

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing, and then marry him."

"In this business it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete."

"If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen."

"I don't like my voice that much. I think I'm a much better actress than singer."


"Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world."

"If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life."

"Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own."

"I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive."

"I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck."