Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna interviews Shirley Manson, November 12, 2008

“From being a young child to being in a band with three men, I had always felt I wadivs on the periphery of society. I always felt on the periphery of being beautiful my entire life. I’m not conventionally attractive. I’m not beautiful in the sense that you would never see me on the front cover of Playboy — flat chested, skinny, not a male pleaser. The need and expectations to be beautiful has been a real sticking point for me because there is always going to be on society a barometer of what is considered conventionally attractive. It is designed to drive women insane. I feel like the beauty expectation is a way of controlling women, and I really genuinely sincerely believe that”