"Women are all female impersonators to some degree."

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Source : Susan Brownmiller (1985). “Femininity”, Fawcett

Susan Brownmiller

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“If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.”
“Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.”

Source : Newsweek 28 Jan. 1963
“The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.”
“I don't want you to describe to meâ€”not everâ€”what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand.”
“Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.”

Source : Daphne Merkin (2014). “The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags”, p.104, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.”
“I shall never surrender or retreat.”
“We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.”

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