“The giant female bodybuilder proves unthinking people wrong who believe feminine beauty can never be harmonious with well developed musculature.”

— Robert Crumb

As qtd. in the Picturing The Modern Amazon exhibition https://mnaves.wordpress.com/2000/06/19/picturing-the-modern-amazon-at-the-new-museum
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