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Confessions Of A Sex Kitten
Eartha Kitt · 1991 · 280 pages
The entertainer recounts her life, from her humble beginnings in South Carolina, to her early success with the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, to her stint as Catwoman in the "Batman" series
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Laverne Cox
“Confessions Of A Sex Kitten was so major. Eartha Kitt is a huge possibility idol for me. The thing about women like Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne, and Diahann Carroll — these black artists in the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s — they were making a way out of no way. Eartha’s book, the first paragraph of it I was bawling. It’s just so deep! Her love life I can so relate to as a trans woman. She dated a lot of white men, who dated her privately. They would neverdate her openly or marry her. That’s something I can certainly relate to as a trans woman. She is brilliant and amazing and sexy and smart and political! She was blacklisted for like 10 years. Eartha Kitt is everything, may she rest in peace.”↗