Voices in the Feminine - Digital Delights

You come to expect it, as a woman writer, particularly if you're political.

Early on in her unclassifiable career, Laurie Anderson, proud daughter of Glen Ellyn, graduate of Glenbard West High School (class of '65), sculptor, musician, storyteller, experimental artist, performance artist, the first NASA artist-in-residence, the wife of Lou Reed, would perform on New York City street corners, often using water as a kind of metaphor. Once, she played violin while standing on a block of ice. She wore skates, the blades frozen into the block. She played until the ice melted, and then she stopped.