Diotalevi Madonna Quotes

I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body. ~ Madonna Ciccone

Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity. ~ Madonna Kolbenschlag

I just find the people I want to work with and put it all together, and it's a lot of hard work, and all kinds of catastrophes happen, but I don't really get too much resistance. But when you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made. ~ Madonna Ciccone

I'm not sorry, it's human nature. ~ Madonna Ciccone

I am a true 80s girl. I loved Kylie, Madonna, The Bangles and Human League. I fancied a couple of the Neighbours kids too and I loved Bros. God, I had terrible music taste. I'm getting a taste of my own medicine now, as my daughter's been asking for some quite scary albums. ~ Donna Air

We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics come in saying that only 29% of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42% of British women - I used to think, What do you think feminism IS, ladies? What part of 'liberation for women' is not for you? Is it freedom to vote? The right not to be owned by the man you marry? The campaign for equal pay? 'Vogue' by Madonna? Jeans? Did all that good shit GET ON YOUR NERVES? Or were you just DRUNK AT THE TIME OF THE SURVEY? ~ Caitlin Moran

I think there are just as many assholes meeting the old-fashioned way as there are meeting in the new hookup culture. ~ Madonna Ciccone

At least my cage is filled with light. ~ Madonna

Oh sure, I have lots of fears. My job is to conquer my fears. The irony of being a performer is that I have huge insecurities. Each of us is responsible for what happens in our lives. When good things happen, we take ownership, but when bad things happen we often don't take responsibility. There are no mistakes or accidents. Consciousness is everything and all things begin with a thought. We are responsible for our own fate. We reap what we sow, we get what we give and we pull in what we put out. ~ Madonna Ciccone

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity. ~ Madonna Ciccone

I don't get superheroes," she says,
"if you could see through everything
you'd see nothing at all. ~ Paul Madonna

I used mythology to tell the story [in Living with Love], with the story of the minotaur and the matador and fighting and fighting for love and the color red and flowers and horns and death and naked men. You know, the important things in life. ~ Madonna Ciccone

I've slept with Prince. ~ Madonna Ciccone

I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular ~ Mariah Carey

I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and then presuming or assuming or captioning. Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back. ~ Madonna Ciccone

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl. ~ Madonna Ciccone

My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken. ~ Madonna Ciccone

Never invite someone who is speaking a foreign language in your presence to "Go back to your country." The only time that phrase is every acceptable is if you are British and you are speaking to Madonna. ~ Celia Rivenbark

You gave me back the paradise
That I thought I lost for good
You helped me find the reasons why
It took me by surprise that you understood
You knew all along
What I never wanted to say
Until I learned to love myself
I was never ever lovin' anybody else. ~ Madonna

Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss. ~ Naomi Wolf

Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge painting of the Black Madonna hung over my desk, and quite a few pictures of Mary around me for inspiration. ~ Sue Monk Kidd

MADONNA OF THE EVENING FLOWERS

All day long I have been working
Now I am tired.
I call: "Where are you?"
But there is only the oak tree rustling in the wind.
The house is very quiet,
The sun shines in on your books,
On your scissors and thimble just put down,
But you are not there.
Suddenly I am lonely:
Where are you?
I go about searching.

Then I see you,
Standing under a spire of pale blue larkspur,
With a basket of roses on your arm.
You are cool, like silver,
And you smile.
I think the Canterbury bells are playing little tunes,
You tell me that the peonies need spraying,
That the columbines have overrun all bounds,
That the pyrus japonica should be cut back and rounded.
You tell me these things.
But I look at you, heart of silver,
White heart-flame of polished silver,
Burning beneath the blue steeples of the larkspur,
And I long to kneel instantly at your feet,
While all about us peal the loud, sweet Te Deums of the Canterbury bells ~ Amy Lowell

People do not respect music anymore ... They go by what's hot ... If you're hot, you deserve 4 or 5 Grammys ... Madonna is a genius and she only has 2 or 3 Grammys ... What is that about? ~ Timbaland

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another. ~ Madonna

People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer. ~ Madonna Ciccone

I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna! ~ Anne Robinson

I can't bear it that some man, even with a lofty heart and the highest mind, should start from the ideal of the Madonna and end with the ideal of Sodom. It's even more fearful when someone who already has the ideal of Sodom in his soul does not deny the ideal of the Madonna either, and his hear burns with it, verily, verily burns, as in his young, blameless years. No, man is broad, even too broad, I would narrow him down. Devil knows even what to make of him, that's the thing! What's shame for the mind is beauty all over for the heart. Can there be beauty in Sodom? Believe me, for the vast majority of people, that's just where beauty lies
did you know that secret? The terrible thing is that beauty is not only fearful but also mysterious. Here the devil is struggling with God, and the battlefield is the human heart. But, anyway, why kick against the pricks? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think. ~ Madonna Ciccone

leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine - Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow stone steps run ~ Malcolm Gladwell

In the midnight hour, I can feel your power. ~ Madonna Ciccone

I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument. ~ Madonna Ciccone

I blow my own mind like Nirvana, and go the whole nine like Madonna. ~ Big Pun

I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me. ~ Jenna Dewan

Santa cAme early this year! good things come to those who wait! #rebelheart ~ Madonna Ciccone

I love divas. Madonna, Mariah, Beyonce, Britney. ~ Andy Cohen

A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory. ~ Bill Maher

Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me. ~ M.I.A.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons. ~ Madonna Ciccone

Being loved keeps you young. ~ Madonna Ciccone

I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine. ~ Madonna Ciccone

I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily ... and I'm reliable. ~ Madonna Ciccone

New Yorkers your voices must be heard. Tell your state Congressmen to support same sex marriage bill. All you need is love ~ Madonna Ciccone

When a woman steps out of line and contravenes the feminine norm, whether on social media on on the Victorian street, there is a tacit understanding that somone must put her back in her place. Labelling the victims as 'just prostitutes' permits writing about Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Kate and Mary Jane even today to continue to disparage, sexualize and dehumanize them; to continue to reinforce values of madonna/whore. ~ Hallie Rubenhold

Hey, wait a minute, I was a Spice Girl once! ~ Madonna Ciccone

The lie is, even if you do work out, you'll never look like Madonna. That's the lie. ~ Mike Pesca

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS. ~ Madonna Ciccone

Ambivalence and contradiction energize nearly every figure Michaelangelo carved, from the adolescent Madonna of the Stairs onward...But the four allegories atop the sarcophagi raise them to a symphonic crescendo. Each is a battleground of conflicting emotions and motives, in which will and paralysis battle for supremacy. ~ Eric Scigliano

I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn't care, I was free. ~ Madonna Ciccone