“If you're going to die, then die. If you are going to live, then fight.”

Emilie Autumn

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“I'm not stupid. I know exactly what's going on, and I'm not fighting it. If I have to go through this, I will glean from it any small benefit I can receive. I will not fight this. Bring it on. Bring on the cure. Bring on the fucking happy. I'm committed.”


“Going back to the basis, the phrase ‘Fight Like A Girl’, and we’ve all heard that growing up. And by that they mean that you’re some kind of weakling and have no skills as a male. It’s said to little boys when they can’t fight yet, and it ridicules us. By the time we were born, the most of us hear things which program you to accept and know that you are less than your male counter part. It comes apparent in the way you’re paid for your job, it comes apparent when yóu are not allowed to go outside after a certain hour because you stand a good chance of getting raped while no one says that to your boyfriend. While women, anywhere, live in some kind of fear, there is no equality and that is mathematically impossible. We cannot see that change or solved in our lifetimes, but we have to do everything that we can. We should remind ourselves that we are fifty-one percent. Everyone should know that fighting like a girl is a positive thing and that there is not inherently anything wrong with us by the fact that we are born like ladies. That is a beautiful thing that we should never be put down because of. Being compared to a woman should only make a man feel stronger. It should be a compliment. In this world we’re creating it actually is. I remember this one guy who came to our show in Texas or something and he had painted his shirt “real men fight like a girl”, and I cried, because he was going away in the army next day. He bought my book because he wanted something he could read over there. I just hoped that this men, fully straight and fully male can maintain and retain all of those things that make him understand us, and what makes him so beautiful. A lot of military training is step one: you take all those guys and put them in front of bunch of hardcore videogames where you kill a bunch of people and become desensitised. But that is NOT power! I will not do that. I will not become less of a human being and I refuse to give up my femininity because that’s bullshit. I’m not going to have to shave my head and become all buff and all that to be able to say “now I’m powerful” because that’s bullshit. All of this, all of us, we are power. You don’t have to change anything to be strong.”


“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”


“Across the skyI will come for youIf you ask me toDemystifyYour uncommon dreamsStranger things have come trueFear no more the midnightFear no more the seaClose your eyes, regret nothingYou're safe with meLook into the shadowsStep into the mistSearch your land but doubt neverI still existAsk yourself: is this all there isTake no answer but the one you findI have put my faith in aberrations of your kindBut even if you're in my mind.Should we hear the silenceShould we hear the noiseI don't need this blind acceptanceI have made my choiceLight lives in the darknessBeauty lives in painIn destruction we may lose ourselvesBut still I will remainAcross the skyAcross the skySee beyond the momentThink beyond the dayHear the wordHear the word”


“Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?”


“And if I end up with blood on my hands, well I know, that you'll understand, 'cause I fight like a girl.”