Young Björk sharing thoughts on gender stereotyping, from a 1994 interview for Spanish Television.
Photograph by Juergen Teller
"Men didn’t before have to worry about this.
They can be silly, fat, funny, intelligent, hardcore, sensual, all those different things, philosophical.
But with women they always have to be feminine.
Feminine, feminine.
And what I like most, is not for everyone to say ‘this is the Age of Women’ or whatever, I think this is bullshit, you know.
I just like to see women who can be characters and can be themselves.
Number 1,2 and 3 they are what they are and number...10- yes, they happen to be women. In the same way that you happen to be Spanish and I happen to be Icelandic.”
Thank you Björk Guðmundsdóttir, for being such a bright guiding light for over thirty years- a creative force that never ceases questioning, reinventing, collaborating and inspiring.
And for pronouncing “hardcore” the way you do.
character[ kar-ik-ter ]
1. the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
2. one such feature or trait; characteristic.
3. moral or ethical quality
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