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Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.

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Kim Gordon
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 28
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The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love ... Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I think there is an expectation that love will be unconditional, but obviously it's not - even after living with someone for years.
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I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.
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For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.
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I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.
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Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other.
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I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.
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Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.
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Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.
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Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.
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People pay to see others believe in themselves.
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Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.
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Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity and gossip. They had these fashion magazines of the time on display with all of the Emile Zola references.
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I think of myself as unconventional. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.
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Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
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Women are natural anarchists...
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