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Paula Butterfield

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The Siege of Paris and the Global Pandemic

Every writer wants to inhabit her protagonist in order to understand and write from her point of view. I already identified with aspects of Berthe Morisot’s life when I wrote La Luministe: her issues with her family, her desire to create, her reluctance to marry. But never could I have imagined that I would understand something about what it was like for her to live through the Siege of Paris.

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“I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

~Berthe Morisot”
― Paula Butterfield

tags: berthe-morisot, impressionism, woman-artist, women-s-equality

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“I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they." ~Berthe Morisot”
― Paula Butterfield, La Luministe

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