“Because we don't wanna assimilate to someone else's (boy) standards of what is or isn't.”

As quoted in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, Paul Du Noyer, ed. (2003).
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American musician and feminist activist 1968

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“Because we don't wanna assimilate to someone else's (boy) standards of what is or isn't.”

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