Swoon Quotes

“It was easier to moralise and ridicule young women’s enthusiasm than acknowledge their growing cultural and economic power.”
― Bea Martinez-Gatell, Swoon: Fangirls, Their Idols and the Counterculture of Female Lust – From Byron to the Beatles

“the true beauty of fandom is that its influence really doesn’t have to be that grand. For every fan who channelled the energy of Beatlemania into activism or art”
― Bea Martinez-Gatell, Swoon: Fangirls, Their Idols and the Counterculture of Female Lust – From Byron to the Beatles

“The press may have latched on to scare stories”
― Bea Martinez-Gatell, Swoon: Fangirls, Their Idols and the Counterculture of Female Lust – From Byron to the Beatles

“From the troubadours of the Middle Ages”
― Bea Martinez-Gatell, Swoon: Fangirls, Their Idols and the Counterculture of Female Lust – From Byron to the Beatles

“What was at stake was women’s right to want things they weren’t supposed to want”
― Bea Martinez-Gatell, Swoon: Fangirls, Their Idols and the Counterculture of Female Lust – From Byron to the Beatles