Under the pink has been in my collection longer than 90 percent of my CD’s, with Cornflake Girl being one of my all time favourites, yet I still haven’t got around to buying Little Earthquakes. I’ve just been reading up the artists interview comments and thought I would share.  

I think I’ll go on Amazon or eBay and buy myself a couple little treats, seems I have some money in my paypal account.

I read the Alice Walker book, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and there’s umm, in that book, the mothers take the daughters to the butchers to have their, let’s say their genitalia removed. And even though it’s a patriarchal culture that she’s talking about, and that this custom was put into practice a long, long time ago by the patriarchy, it’s the mothers that take their daughters.

And, what I was singing about was, it’s funny how from generation to generation women really betray each other in the ladies’ room.

There is a whole secret society that happens, and a lot of times a mother will say ‘I’m doing this for your good’ whether it was binding the feet in the Eastern cultures or whether it’s marrying your daughter to this gangrene, smelly-breathed, old, decrepit, rotting scumbag that’s 80 years old with dough. ‘You know, this is really the best for you,’ when the truth is, it’s the best for everybody else.

And, that’s an extreme of women’s relationships brought to just like, your girlfriend that you’re hanging out with, but betrayal is betrayal, and I was thrown in to many situations as I was reading that book where girls, my girls, we were just dissin’ each other.

The things that we were doing, umm, it’s like I would have never imagined that we could be so unsupportive of each other, and it was just happening while I was reading this book, and Cornflake Girl is the betrayal really of girls.”

– Tori; 99X Radio Interview, 08/05/94

“History has recorded some pretty nasty things that have happened to people I think we remember I think it’s in our cells and I think it can still hurt sometimes.”

– Tori; Under The Pink Songbook