"I have always been drawn to the women who can arouse this kind of vitriol. The kind of hate that seems too big and billowing..."

"... to be directed at just one woman, the kind that seems like a person or an entire society is vomiting out all its misogyny onto one convenient scapegoat. At some point � after successive Joan of Arc and Courtney Love phases � I started to see this position of feminine abjectness as a kind of superpower. A position from which a woman could offend far more deeply than a man."

From "Yoko Ono and the Myth That Deserves to Die," by Lindsay Zoladz in New York Magazine. Another excerpt:

As one of the few women associated with New York�s avant-garde music scene and the �neo-Dada� Fluxus movement, Ono was by then used to being overshadowed by the more powerful and self-serious men around her. (�I wonder why men can get serious at all,� she mused in Grapefruit. �They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will.�)