RAMBLING ROSE

Still from ‘W.E.’

“And I’m right by your side
Like a thief in the night
I stand in front of a masterpiece…”

“She wasn’t a conventional beauty but she had an amazing face and every time she would draw a self portrait she wasn’t intent on making herself appear more beautiful or different from reality. She wouldn’t erase the moustache or the heavy eyebrows. Everyone else would have just made themselves look better or more in tune with aesthetical canons. I think that what makes a woman beautiful is pride in being herself and not trying to adapt herself to anyone else’s tastes. We should never apologise for being what we are, for being how we are.”

Madonna on Frida Kahlo

“‘Express yourself’ is the title of one of my songs, but also the motto best representing me.”

Madonna

Madonna on her fears:

“Not knowing what lies ahead of me. And ignorant, judgemental people.”

‘Madonna’s the biggest pop artist ever in the history of pop art in the world.’

William Orbit

“I don’t really think about controversy — I think about irony… I hope I’m a role model. I hope I give other girls a voice, women a voice, other women someone to look up to and admire. I keep rolling with the punches and trying to have integrity. And I hope I inspire women and give them strength to deal with life no matter what comes their way.”

Madonna

‘Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman.’ 

Naomi Wolf

“Sometimes your parents aren’t really the people who nurture you. You have other role models in your life that become your mother and your father. It’s unusual when the family you’re born into is actually the people that feel like your family.” 

Madonna

“For some reason, I feel like I never left high school, because I still feel that if you don’t fit in, you’re going to get your ass kicked. That hasn’t really changed for me. I’ve always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.”

Madonna