"it takes guts to be a woman under patriarchy. I mean, Dolly Parton is like an image of a super-femme, but she has this certain brassiness, she just has to have total guts to survive around men and to have her image be so female. She's the kind of person that a drag queen would emulate, because she is using that female, or femme facade, which is like Marlene Dietrich or Mae West or Dolly Parton or any of those gutsy women over the years who drag queens have chosen to emulate, especially the ones who do female impersonation. There's the other edge to them besides the femme facade that is totally gutsy and a real survivor of the world"
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Composers from the United StatesAmerican country singersSinger-songwriters from the United StatesMusic producers from the United StatesWomen singers from the United States
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Tede Matthews interview in Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn (1985)
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