Quips and Quotations (Sexual Revolutionary Edition)

 

1940-2023

 

My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding.

--Raquel Welch

If a man were going to become a woman, he would want to become the most beautiful woman in the world. He would become Raquel Welch.

--Robert Fryer, producer of the film version of Gore Vidal's novel Myra Breckinridge

 I can't recall what Gore Vidal thought of Raquel Welch in Myra Breckinridge, his transgender comedy, though he wrote off the film itself as "an awful joke." The movie managed to piss off everyone including the White House which demanded that old clips of Shirley Temple be excised from the movie because it demeaned her position as a delegate at the United Nations. So it had that going for it. Still the film seems even more relevant to our time than the late 60s.

--Jeffrey St. Clair, journalist

Raquel and an up-and-comer

  

 Fame is a fickle food

Upon a shifting plate

--Emily Dickinson