Every woman knows what I'm talking about when I say girls grow up with a desire to please, to cede their power to other people.. . everyone knows about the sometimes aggressive and manipulative ways men often exert power in the world, and how by using the word empowered to describe women, men are simply maintaining their own power and control. Kim Gordon
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  1. When people ask me what L.A. was like in the sixties, I tell them there wasn't as much terrible stucco as there is today: no mini malls with their approximation of Spanish two-story buildings, no oversized SUVs bulging out of parking-space lines. What used to...
  2. Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done.
  3. Families are like little villages. You know where everything is, you know how everything works, your identity is fixed, and you can't really leave, or connect with anything or anybody outside, until your physically no longer there.
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  5. .. . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.
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