Dear Know it Not,
Why, why doesn't anyone tell me these things? Why doesn't anyone tell me about Lizzy Mercier Descloux? Or Tove Jansson? Or Eve Babitz, Helen DeWitt, Josephine Wiggs, Bikini Kill? What about Lizzie Araminto? Or Rebecca Solnit? P J Harvey? Lydia Lunch? Wanda Jackson?
Who did I have, as a role model in the mass media of television as a young person? I had Wives (Mary Tyler Moore, Elizabeth Montgomery), I had Whores (Suzanne Somers, Loretta Swit), one single Worker (Mary Tyler Moore), and I had this one lone person, this outlaw, this woman with a gender challenging name, this one person that seemed like she might be writing her own rules. I am grateful to her! Suzi Quatro is our Girl Friday!
Check her out here, where I first met her; and here, here, and here, and now.
Bonus track! And a nice website.
