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When Tori Amos speaks about literature, it invites us to pause and reflect on our own journey. How often do we consider the subtle impacts of literature in our daily lives? This thought-provoking perspective challenges conventional wisdom and encourages a deeper understanding of ourselves.

About Tori Amos

Tori Amos is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. A child prodigy, Amos entered the Peabody Institute's preparatory division at five, but left at eleven, coming of age as a pianist in Washington, D.C. bars. Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s pop-rock group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics, and religion.

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"I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object."

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"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."

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"I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'."

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"Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom."

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"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."

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