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Author: Lynn Peril

Lynn Peril is the author of Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office. She lives in Oakland, California.

Suzi Quatro

By: Lynn Peril

“Please don’t make me decide between you and a bottle of beer.”

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Roy Loney

By: Lynn Peril

The Groovies with and without Loney were different forces of nature.

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Helen Gurley Brown

By: Lynn Peril

“Being great at a terrific job is sexy.”

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Gene Vincent

By: Lynn Peril

He knew a thing or two about what grown-up women want.

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Shirley Jackson

By: Lynn Peril

A story that everyone knows even if they don’t remember the author’s name.

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Ted Knight

By: Lynn Peril

Scream­ingly funny, yet type­cast forever as Ted Baxter.

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Mae West

By: Lynn Peril

“You just write yourself the part, and then you play it.”

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Lucy Stone

By: Lynn Peril

She refused to give up everything when she said, “I do.”

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4CP Friday

By: Lynn Peril

A selection of 4CP images curated by Lynn Peril

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Dagmar Krause

By: Lynn Peril

An almost unbearably emotive voice.

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Joanna Lumley

By: Lynn Peril

The boozy, self-absorbed Patsy Stone is one of TV’s greatest characters.

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Alice B. Toklas

By: Lynn Peril

A great gossip, and an acerbic critic of writers and artists in Paris

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Vivienne Westwood

By: Lynn Peril

Who cares what the world thinks an “old lady” is supposed to look like?

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Kirb Your Enthusiasm (12)

By: Lynn Peril

Lynn Peril on a panel from YOUNG LOVE (1950)

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Carol Channing

By: Lynn Peril

“There has never been anything like this before in human society.”

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