#de

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#approach #attempt #been #deal #down

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#also #deeply #gonna #i #know

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#i #idea #limit #me #messages

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#anger #avoidance #because #bit #deal

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#avoidance #deal #i #later #left

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#body #both #carving #directions #eye

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#best #book #breathing #deadline #down

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#bones #defined #now #out #perilous

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#almost #debilitating #everybody #horrible #i

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#empathy #eye #famous #great #happened