“[O]ne of the main things [I want] is for the female voice to be just as important and ubiquitous as that of the male. That’s just what I want. I just want women’s experiences and their artistic productions and everything to be just as valuable and worthy of scrutiny as men’s. That can be good women, bad women, stupid women, smart women — I just want it to be an even playing field because we’re all having a life experience right now. Historically that paucity of art from the female perspective, it leaves me with no real history. It frustrates me. I just want that to change. I just want, when people look back at the early 21st century, that they’re drawing from both sexes’ experiences without thinking about it and they can pick and choose what they think is good and what they think is bad.”—
Liz Phair, Venus, Summer 2003 (source)
I just wanted to leave you with a little tidbit that conveys how fucking awesome Liz Phair is. That’s all.
I’m not gonna lie to you, Tumblr: I’m pretty taken with Liz Phair. Listened to whitechocolatespaceegg a whole lot as I stumbled confusedly through the first few years of the decade before this one (I’M OLD). And I love this quote.
