Defined and defining herself by her relationships with these two larger-than-life women, the narrator of Swing Time observes her world with a kind of Fred Astaire like quality, dancing lightly with a beautiful, floating, intelligent prose.
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Hopefully on her third album, due this spring, she'll be defining herself less through styles, and more through songcraft.
But until she arrived at the State Department, she was ambivalent about defining herself publicly as a women's advocate.
Defining herself as a liberal, she hurled herself into the nuts and bolts of politics, learning at the feet of more conservative powerbrokers.
In her documentary, she has a pretty good go at defining herself: "I could be a genius, I could be a cheat," she says.
Even Serena Williams did it back in 1999 in that third-round Open match against Clijsters, who even then was defining herself as a counterpuncher.
True feminism has to do with a woman's dealing with and conquering the world on her own terms, and not defining herself by the values of men ["In Tune With the New Feminism" by Ann Powers, April 29].
