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“Generations of parents have upheld this line if thinking. When a daughter showed a promise of talent, they saw it as a curse and worried that she would die young. Eventually, the very lack of talent became a sure sign of virtue for women.”
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“Things will change, Father. They must. And art can help create the change.”
― The Passion of Artemisia
― The Passion of Artemisia
“Chinese men refer to their wives as neiren, “person of the inner chamber,” or neizi, “the inner one.” The word nei is opposed to the word wai, or “outer.” By keeping woman as his own property, a man cloisters his wife within the walls and deprives her of her basic freedom”
― The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory
― The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory
“I retain, but suspend, my personal taste to deal with the panoply of the art I see. I have a trick for doing justice to an uncongenial work: “What would I like about this if I liked it?” I may come around; I may not. Failing that, I wonder, What must the people who like this be like? Anthropology.”
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“Uno stato d'animo si può comunicare solo attraverso un'opera d'arte. Necessariamente un libro o è una discussione, una esposizione di certe nozioni o informazioni oppure è un'opera d'arte.”
― Avanzi popolo
― Avanzi popolo
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