Creativity Quote by Bjork

Bjork has a knack for making a blunt observation feel like a strange weather report: obvious once you step outside, hard to talk about without sounding programmed. Here, she points to a paradox that sits at the intersection of biology, culture, and exhaustion. “Nature sets females up” gestures toward hormones, pregnancy, and the body as infrastructure for caretaking; it also slyly implicates the stories we tell about that infrastructure, the way “natural” gets used as a stamp of inevitability. She’s not just describing a trait, she’s naming a trap.

The phrase “take care of people” is deliberately expansive. It covers the visible labor (childcare, eldercare) and the invisible stuff that keeps households and relationships running: anticipating needs, regulating moods, being the emotional shock absorber. Then Bjork lands the punchline with “yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves,” swapping moral language for practical language. Not “wrong,” not “selfish,” just “tricky” - like the system is designed with a bug. That word choice makes the critique sharper: the obstacle isn’t individual failure, it’s a set of pressures that turn self-care into a logistical and psychological impossibility.

Context matters: Bjork’s work and public persona have long been about bodies under strain - vulnerability, reproduction, love as ecology, art as survival. Coming from a musician who has navigated motherhood, fame, and relentless scrutiny, the line reads less like a manifesto and more like a field note from someone documenting how care becomes identity, and identity becomes confinement.