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When she needs counsel, after all, she’s got the muses – a collective of feminine voices who’ve been talking to her and guiding her since before she can remember.

Colleen Dolan, an education expert with expertise in Stephen King film adaptations, tells Salon, “B***hery gets them out of the straightjacket of respectability, what Betty Friedan had called the ‘feminine mystique.’

Back in the makeup chair, robe on, she thinks out loud while her lipstick is being wiped off: “I don’t know what I’d do with a son, you know? I’m so feminine.”

Flack’s emotional maturity helped expand the contemporary definitions of Black music and brought in a feminine perspective that helped plant the seed for artists such as Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys and India Arie.

Chocolate, which was once a symbol of power and virility, took on more feminine connotations once women could enjoy it.