Molly Parton’s Reviews > Cat’s Eye > Status Update

“Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved”

“Because I can no longer control these paintings, or tell them what to mean. Whatever energy they have came out of me. I’m what’s left over”

Her telling us why she painted them and then the description from the gallery is DEVASTATING

“An eye for an eye leads only to more blindness”

“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women”

“Science on the other hand is dispassionate and without bias, it is the only universal language”

“Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened”

“daytime is ruled by mothers. But fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home the fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to them than meets the eye”

“I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning”

“With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love”