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Somebody That I Used to Know,' like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly quickly - I wrote it in November 2010 - but it took six months to find Kimbra and really realize she was the right vocalist to make the female part come to life. There were constant hurdles. ”
In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them. ”
When you're female working in a male-dominated industry, there are unfortunately extra things you need to do - for example, couch opinions in a way that sounds palatable and not threatening. That's a skill I developed. ”
One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism. ”
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same. ”
A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. ”
There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female. ”
After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that! ”
Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does. ”
The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher. ”