The women’s struggle today is an individual struggle (…) You can’t demand equal pay if you also want to have a long maternity leave, stay at home when they are sick and be there primarily for the children.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
They say it’s the white man I should fear, but it’s my own kind doing all the killing here.
When I die, I want to go to sleep peacefully like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.
You are only as happy as your least happy child-
The longer I stay at home, the more homeless I look.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
You have to take the wrinkles that come. And all those who get their skin sprayed and look like wounded warriors for a long time, become very little prettier, but look so sour. The smile is actually the best face-lift, I think.
Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said “Whatever it is, go back and do it again.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
I don’t hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hate the sexy image, hate the pictures of me on stage, hate the big vulgar person. On stage, I act the whole time I’m there. As soon as I come out of those songs, I’m Tina again.
I was mortified that she disappeared before me, sitting at her writing desk, surrounded by classical music. A cerut in hand and a glass of whisky within reach.
I only earn 11 kroner per trip I sell, but it also becomes a part when I sell a million trips a year.
Never listen to girls on how to get girls. If you’re trying to catch fish you don’t ask another fish. You ask the Fisherman.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.