Opinions took a back seat, opinions were not attractive. This is stuff I remember thinking when I was quite young. At my house you learned to rise above the contending voices, but I recognized early on that that wasn’t attractive on a date. I wasn’t aware of designing myself in high school, but when I got to [college at] Vassar, all of that fell away, because it was just girls and it was the early ’70s and it was the classic consciousness-raising time when people were earnestly talking about ‘What’s a woman? What’s our role in the world? What is our capacity? What is holding us back?’ I felt free. A thing emerged, which was my actual personality and my actual voice, I guess, and I realized that I was funny, and allowed to be — and allowed to be loud, and obnoxious — and I took full advantage of it. It was an emergence.

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