If, impossibly, the exact same person had grown up in some other time or place who knows, but in the life she lived she was born female and lived her life as a

If, impossibly, the exact same person had grown up in some other time or place who knows, but in the life she lived she was born female and lived her life as a woman, but with a defiant femininity; rooted in herself, her body, not in the capitalist beauty myth (N.B. the communist beauty myth wasn't much better and she rejected that as well).