Megan West(erby)

"And there it is. Accidentally or not, Yoko gets to the bottom of things. Yoko wasn’t supposed to have her own life. And I think that 28 years after John’s death, many people still feel this way. In the same interview, Yoko talks about how people kept asking what John was doing between 1975 and 1980 when he dropped out of public life to raise Sean. She says “But at least they asked him; they never asked me, because, as a woman, I wasn’t supposed to be doing anything.” She was married to John Lennon. What need would she have to do anything?"

~ Yoko Ono: A Feminist Analysis (Part Two: Don’t Let Me Down) : The Curvature

25 August 2009 ·