After all these years Madonna still manages to blow us away. And as she has become less outspoken over the years, hearing from her becomes more of a treat. Below are our favorite quotes from the Bazaar article that was written in first person. See images from the article including the cover shot below the quotes. #ThisWoman
“Doing something daring is a rather scary proposition for most people. Yet for some strange reason, it has become my raison d’être.”
“I …. soon discovered that being a rebel and not conforming doesn’t make you very popular. In fact, it does the opposite. You are viewed as a suspicious character. A troublemaker. Someone dangerous.”
“I did the opposite of what all the other girls were doing, and I turned myself into a real man repeller. I dared people to like me and my nonconformity.”
“[New York] did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don’t know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time.”
“I have a funny relationship with religion. I’m a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody. But I’m not a big fan of rules. And yet we cannot live in a world without order. But for me, there is a difference between rules and order. Rules people follow without question. Order is what happens when words and actions bring people together, not tear them apart.”
“I decided that I needed to be more than a girl with gold teeth and gangster boyfriends. More than a sexual provocateur imploring girls not to go for second-best baby.”
“When I was 45, I was married again, with two children and living in England. I consider moving to a foreign country to be a very daring act.”
“I could get my head around people giving me a hard time for simulating masturbation onstage or publishing my Sex book, even kissing Britney Spears at an awards show, but trying to save a child’s life was not something I thought I would be punished for.”
“If you aren’t willing to fight for what you believe in, then don’t even enter the ring.”
That last quote has to be the best. Madonna is complex like all of us but her willingness to power through every challenge and never say quit is a personality characteristic she has in spades!
