Alice

“You needed a fire inside you, the kind that kept you passionately invested in the here and now, the kind that made you want to shape what was happening rather than letting it shape you.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Race the Sands

“We owe it to the dead to keep their memory alive by reminding the world of its responsibility never to forget.”
― Mala Kacenberg, Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II

“Still, no one much celebrated having found a previously unknown painter [Marie Denise Villers] who was equal to the great David. Though the public continued to love the painting - they may not have known David from Delacroix, at any rate - soma academics had a change of heart about the painting itself.

Sterling (see start of chapter) said some not-very nice things, beginning with, "The notion that our portrait may have been painted by a woman is, let us confess, an attractive idea." Why attractive? Because it explains everything wrong with the work: "cleverly concealed weaknesses" and "a thousand subtle artifices" that all add up to "the feminine spirit."

In other words: Isn't that just like a woman?”
― Bridget Quinn, Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History

“At no time did anyone throw his cap in the air and rejoice that another painter, capable of equaling Hals at his best, had been discovered.”
― Germaine Greer, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work