Yoko Ono Quotes
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.
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What is beauty? It's what you love.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay."
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I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.
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Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.
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You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?
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It's better to dance than to march through life.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.
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Every drop in the ocean counts.
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Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
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Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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Art is a way of survival.
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It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating.
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All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense.
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Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know.
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I'm just trying to do my best every day, hoping that I have done my best every day, and its very easy in a way, but also it's not that easy. Every day counts.
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The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
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Be kind once a day - even if it's just in your mind.
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I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.
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Life with another person is always difficult.
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In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
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I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.
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