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Ugly Ducklings Don't Turn Into Swans And Glide Off Down The Lake. Whether Your Sunglasses Are On Or Off, You Only See The World You Make.

There's Something About The Strat's Shape That Is At Once Masculine And Feminine

Those Of Us Who Grew Up In The '50s And '60s, We Had The Dream That This Could Be Turned Around, And The Earth Could Be Back In Balance, And That We Could Level The Playing Field With Men And Women And Pay, And You Know, Minority Groups Having Equal Opportunity. We Just Magically Thought This Was All Going To Happen: We Were Going To Have Clean Food, And Organic This, And Conscious That, And It Just Didn't Happen.

I Grew Up In Los Angeles In A Quaker Family, And For Me Being Quaker Was A Political Calling Rather Than A Religious One.

The Connection Between Toxicity And Cancer And Safe Air And Water And Food, All Of That Was Important All Along, As Were Women's And Human Rights Issues, But The Nuke Issue And The Safe Energy Movement Became Really Important To Me In The Mid-'70s.