In the memoir, Just Kids, gender does not have a high impact on the art of Patti Smith. Patti is more concerned with her how to express herself as a person, and how to express herself through her artwork. She changes her look by cutting her hair, and experiments with different means of creating art such as painting, making music, drawing, and writing poetry. Patti realizes that gender plays a role in her life and in society, but she does not let it affect her artwork. Although her creations reflect her own life experiences, which gender had an impact on, her art was not affected. It remained gender neutral simply because she was more concerned with the desire to acquire an artistic style than to express the role her gender plays in society. After many years, Smith realized that the art form she was most accurately able to express herself through was music. With music, she was also able to incorporate her poetry. Other musicians had an impact on her work, such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Patti Smith and these artists had a similar desire to write music that unified people and promoted the possibility of peace being attainable.