You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.
Kim GordonWomen make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.
Kim GordonI'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.
Kim GordonMany designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.
Kim GordonIn retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I woreโฆStill, I've always believedโstill doโthat the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.
Kim Gordon