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The Holiday Edition of Vanity Fair magazine has a special section featuring photographs by Annie Leibovitz, titled The Vanity Fair 2018 Hall of Fame. Included are photographs of Stephanie Gregory Clifford (known to most of us as Stormy Daniels) and Hannah Gadsby, an Australian comedian. The photographs of Clifford and Gadsby, along with those of the others featured, are accompanied by a brief comment, written by someone of note. Gadsby is openly lesbian and refers to her sexuality in her stand-up routines. She also recounts experiences, which cannot be described by any other word than “brutality”, she had as an adolescent and young woman, primarily because of her sexuality. Monica Lewinsky, who wrote the comments for Gadsby's photograph, and whose name is in no way obscure to most of us, quoted Gadsby: "There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.” Hear! hear!