The Many Battles of Nina Simone

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Author Erica Jong (b. 1942) calls Silents the “whiplash generation.” “Caught between our mothers (who stayed home) and the next generation (who took the right to achieve for granted),

Lenny had always seen them as a pair of artists, which was the most feminist thing about him. He found her sexier the closer she came to reaching her full potential. He wanted them both to soar.

A woman, under capitalism, was no longer considered dangerous—she was helpless.