Funny Male Performance

Famous quotes containing the words funny, male and/or performance:

“O tiny mother,
you too!
O funny duchess!
O blonde thing!”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal, that we can understand our past through a male lens—if we are unaware that women even have a history—we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“Kind are her answers,
But her performance keeps no day;
Breaks time, as dancers,
From their own music when they stray.”
—Thomas Campion (1567–1620)