Early Life
Borden's career as a feminist filmmaker begins with her appropriation of name of an accused murderess. The 1890s Lizzie Borden, who was found innocent of her crimes, inspired the following children's skipping-rope rhyme:
- Lizzie Borden took an axe
- And gave her father forty whacks,
- When she saw what she had done,
- She gave her mother forty-one
Linda Borden's fascination with this rhyme at the age of eleven resulted in an announcement to her parents that she was changing her name to Lizzie. Borden says, "At the time, my name was the best rebellion I could make."
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