Biography

Journalist who was recognized for her rock criticism. She was the first pop-music critic of The New Yorker, and wrote regularly about music for Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and other publications.

On spirit: My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

One of the major flaws of the counter-culture is that for all of its concern with the dispossessed, it is as oppressive as the surrounding society toward the female half of the race. It treats women as "chicks" - nubile decorations - or mothers or goddesses or bitches, rarely as human beings.