Title: Fresh Air Remembers Lesley Gore Who Sang Hits Including 'You Don't Own Me' : NPR
Headings: Fresh Air Remembers Lesley Gore Who Sang Hits Including 'You Don't Own Me'
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Fresh Air Remembers Lesley Gore Who Sang Hits Including 'You Don't Own Me'

Content: At the time, I know I chose it because I liked the strength in the lyric. But for me it was not a song about being a woman. It was a song about being a person and what was involved with that. Of course, it got picked up as an anthem for women, which makes me very proud. And today when I sing that song - I don't know, maybe it's after the Anita Hill hearings and a number of other things that have - seem to be happening in our world - "You Don't Own Me" takes on a whole other set of meanings for me now. GROSS: Yeah, I know a lot of people have come to see it as a protofeminist anthem (laughter). So you didn't think of it that way when you were recording it. GORE: I didn't.