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“...could she both disdain the state of this country's culture as a whole and still reasonably desire or accept its approval?”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“Men had created almost every work of art prior to the twentieth century. They had depicted the female form again and again and thus narrowly and tenaciously defined 'the feminine.' A few decades of female dominance of the art market was not a sufficient corrective of that imbalance.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“...to proceed as if there had been [none] at all rather than reckon with a love that was impossible to resolve or fold away neatly. It is better to cut than to tear,”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“I do not believe it is always morally wrong to act in a cruel manner, so long as you accept the burden of accurately calculating whether the object of one's cruelty could stand to benefit from pain more than from pleasure.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X