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“We owe it to the dead to keep their memory alive by reminding the world of its responsibility never to forget.”
― Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II
― Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II
“[..]You know the problem with connoisseurship?"
I did not. I had no idea there was a problem with connoisseurship.
"It doesn't take into account the artist waking up on the wrong side of the bed. [..] It doesn't consider the really shitty day"
[..] Later it would occur to me, what about the opposite? The Day When Everything Goes Right. The Fucking Excellent Day.”
― Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
I did not. I had no idea there was a problem with connoisseurship.
"It doesn't take into account the artist waking up on the wrong side of the bed. [..] It doesn't consider the really shitty day"
[..] Later it would occur to me, what about the opposite? The Day When Everything Goes Right. The Fucking Excellent Day.”
― Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
“In other words: this scene is from the woman's point of view.”
― Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
― Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
“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.”
― Race the Sands
― Race the Sands
“[..] And here, suddenly, was Woolf's own talented sister. The one who survived. The sister who painted.
My first thought was: how sad. What fate could be worse than to be in close proximity to genius, capable of recognizing it, but, alas, something less-than? And Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell must have been less-than, because I'd barely heard of her. How terrible, and sadly typical, that in my long pursuit of women artists I'd apparently learned nothing. Least of all, that they are all too easily lost to time, a condition rarely any reflection on their talent.”
― Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
My first thought was: how sad. What fate could be worse than to be in close proximity to genius, capable of recognizing it, but, alas, something less-than? And Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell must have been less-than, because I'd barely heard of her. How terrible, and sadly typical, that in my long pursuit of women artists I'd apparently learned nothing. Least of all, that they are all too easily lost to time, a condition rarely any reflection on their talent.”
― Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
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Alice’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alice’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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308 books
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Art, Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Historical fiction, History, Manga, Mystery, Paranormal, Science fiction, and Young-adult
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