Sima Schloss

“I open the gallery door, walk in with that sinking feeling I always have in galleries. It’s the carpets that do it to me, the hush, the sanctimoniousness of it all: galleries are too much like churches, there’s too much reverence, you feel there should be some genuflecting going on. Also I don’t like it that this is where paintings end up, on these neutral-toned walls with the track lighting, sterilized, rendered safe and acceptable. It’s as if somebody’s been around spraying the paintings with air freshener, to kill the smell. The smell of blood on the wall.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish. Women know too much, they can neither be deceived nor trusted. I can understand why men are afraid of them, as they are frequently accused of being.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“I’ve been prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye