ON HER CONTROVERSIAL 1968 SONG ''JUST BECAUSE I'M A WOMAN''
''That song was based on a true story. My husband doesn't particularly like for me to tell this, but he's old enough now, so he don't really give a big s---... See, I had sex before we met, but I hadn't mentioned it, and he hadn't asked. We were married for eight months, happy as we could be, and all of a sudden he decides to ask. I told him the truth, and it broke his heart. He could not get over that for the longest time. I thought, 'Well, my goodness, what's the big damn deal?''' — to Rolling Stone, 2003

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