Madonna has a swift, firm handshake and a straight green eyed gaze and a face that you probably know as well as your own. The sharp little chin, the heavy lidded eyes, the full lips, all familiar and very beautiful. Madonna is a FemDom Icon soon to be featured here at Paige-Harrison.com.

I am often asked, what does it mean to be a Woman? A highly complex question to be certain. An August 2002 interview in the London Magazine 'The Face' Madonna gives us her take as she talks about the song, "What It Feels Like For A Girl," from her album, Music.

The following is excerpted from this interview:

Q: In the song, "What It Feels Like For A Girl" - who's speaking at the beginning?

M: Charlotte Gainsburg [daughter of Serge]. Did you ever see a movie called The Cement Garden? Where she has an affair with her brother? It's a scene where she's saying to her brother "It's OK for girls to dress like boys, to wear shirts and boots and blah blah blah. But for a boy to dress like a girl is degrading, because you think that being a girl is degrading - but secretly you'd love to know what it's like.' I just was like, 'Oh my God, that is so brilliant!'

Q: Is that song addressed to your daughter?

M: Um.. . ish. It's to her, but then it's me talking to myself, it's me. It's about me discovering that being an overachiever is not always to your benefit when it comes to relationships and dealing with men, because men are quite intimidated by women who accomplish a lot. There have been so many instances where I've said to myself 'Oh I wish somebody would have said to me, "Be great, but don't be too great because you're going to limit your options"

Be great and then fall over?
It is a game that all strong women have to play. 'Game' is the wrong word, but the song is really a realization about the politics of the sexes. It's a complaint. It's also about traditional feminine behavior, this kind of thing (curling her hair around her finger and batting her lashes). I was thinking about girls in advertising, and about how on the outside something can look like pubescent acquiescence but in reality, underneath, it's completely different. And it's not a feminist anthem, but I feel like other women can relate to it. The song's about quite a lot actually, but the more I explain it the more trivial it sounds.

Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots
'Cause it's OK to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading
But secretly you'd love to know what it's like
Wouldn't you
What it feels like for a girl

Silky smooth
Lips as sweet as candy, baby
Tight blue jeans
Skin that shows in patches

Strong inside but you don't know it
Good little girls they never show it
When you open up your mouth to speak
Could you be a little weak

Do you know what it feels like for a girl
Do you know what it feels like in this world
For a girl
Hair that twirls on finger tips so gently, baby
Hands that rest on jutting hips repenting

Hurt that's not supposed to show
And tears that fall when no one knows
When you're trying hard to be your best
Could you be a little less

Do you know what it feels like for a girl
Do you know what it feels like in this world
What it feels like for a girl

Strong inside but you don't know it
Good little girls they never show it
When you open up your mouth to speak
Could you be a little weak

Do you know what it feels like for a girl
Do you know what it feels like in this world
For a girl
In this world
Do you know
Do you know
Do you know what it feels like for a girl
What it feels like in this world