Alice Bag > Quotes

“What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.”
― Alice Bag, Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

“My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.”
― Alice Bag

“If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work.”
― Alice Bag

“I am not a perfectionist…if you believe that your best is good enough, you will find happiness. The unknown can be exciting and full of opportunity but you have to be involved and you have to be able to evolve.”
― Alice Bag, Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

“I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.”
― Alice Bag

“The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied.”
― Alice Bag, Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

“I took big, hungry bites out of life, and I'm still not full.”
― Alice Bag

“If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true.”
― Alice Bag

“Truthfully, if you want to remember me, do it now. I won’t give a shit when I’m dead.”
― Alice Bag

“During my 20’s and 30’s at some point I started to think, “I have to give it up and I have to grow up.” But the truth is that I can never give it up and that’s another thing that I always tell people, especially young people: don’t even bother thinking that you’re going to give up whatever your art or your creative thing is. It’s always there for you.”
― Alice Bag

“To speak a dream aloud is to cast a magic spell.”
― Alice Bag

“Life is most exciting when we are put in the uncomfortable position of having to evaluate our beliefs.”
― Alice Bag

“If you’re not smiling at yourself in the mirror, you probably need to check that the life you’re building is aligned to the life you dreamed for yourself. And if you’re not dreaming, you need to start dreaming.”
― Alice Bag

“Sifting through long forgotten stories of my childhood and writing on a daily basis, I became obsessed with following the threads of my memories, one leading to another. I start pulling on a single, seemingly trivial strand, only to discover it is attached to a longer strand; that one in turn is attached to an even bigger one. Sometimes, I find have tugged a whole, hidden tapestry of my past into view, one thread at a time.”
― Alice Bag

“On the way home from church, I felt like I was walking on clouds, as pure as an angel. I wished a car would run me down at that very instant, so I could die and go straight to heaven before I had a chance to sin again.”
― Alice Bag, Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

“Punk has been portrayed as music by and for angry white males, but in its inception, it was a rebellion against all rock cliches. Gender, ethnic, sexual and class taboos were all challenged by our early punk community and that is a story which is not very often told. People of color, queer folk, women—all were present from the very beginning of Punk.”
― Alice Bag

“Safe is prudent, safe is comfortable but progress is propelled by those who are willing to risk it all.”
― Alice Bag

“Embrace the honesty of imperfection and you will be unstoppable.”
― Alice Bag