One Of The Most Radical

I Literally Would Go To See Tina Turner Any Opportunity I Had Because Being In The Presence Of Tina Turner Was Like Being In The Presence Of Transformative Energy, And Feminist Transformative Energy. I Remember Thinking To Myself, Whatever This Is, It's Revolution. Whatever This Is, It's Change Embodied In A Woman.

There's An Underlying Puritanicalness In America That Is Not That Different To The Prudishness Of Britain - It Just Manifests Itself In Different Ways.

Political Change And Academic Change And Intellectual Change Are Obviously Crucial, But They Don't Necessarily Change Society. They Can Change A Particular Class And Give Everybody In That Class Great Arguments, But That Doesn't Necessarily Translate Into The Body Of The Culture.

I Think We Have Made Progress. There's No Doubt About It, We Have Moved Forward. But There's Some Essential, Core Thing That Has Not Been Deconstructed. And I'm Telling You, It's Connected To The Body. I Know It Is.

Look, You Do Everything In Stages, Right? I Don't Think Everything Happens At Once. There Are So Many Layers We Are Constantly Chipping Away At, Down And Down And Down, Closer And Closer To What Would Be The Body. I Think What Happened With Cancer, Was That I Woke Up Out Of Nine Hours Of Surgery And I Was Body. I Was Just Body.