The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

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Girls should be strong together. Strong like steel, merry like the tinkling of chimes dancing in the wind.

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A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

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Women hold all the power. They should use it like a whip, not offer it up like a sacrifice.

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It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't.

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Drawing Quotes.

  • Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso
  • Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. David Hockney
  • If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. Edward Hopper
  • You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. John Singer Sargent
  • Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. Arshile Gorky
  • I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle. Frederick Franck
  • Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see. Edgar Degas
  • Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. Salvador Dali
  • How you draw is a reflection of how you feel about the world. You’re not capturing it, you’re interpreting it. Juliette Aristides
  • If you can draw well, tracing won’t hurt; and if you can’t draw well, tracing won’t help. Bradley Schmehl
  • The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing. John Sloan
  • The painter draws with his eyes, not with his hands. Maurice Grosser

Short Story

Camille Claudel: Madness Before Oblivion

If Camille Claudel (1864-1943) is one of the most famous French female artists and sculptors in the world, the whole first half of the 20th century passed her by in silence. Like Tina Modotti, she was subject to a late rediscovery.

Claudel was an apprentice of Rodin in the 1880s before having an affair with him. She hardly managed to emerge from the shadow of her mentor despite her undeniable talent. They separated after ten years of a passionate and destructive relationship. Camille Claudel was convinced that her lack of recognition was caused by Rodin and later developed paranoia disorders; leading to her admission into a psychiatric hospital in 1913. Her family’s opposition to her requests for release explains that she ended her days in total indifference, confined in an asylum until she died in 1943.

This novel about a tragically cursed artist was written by Anne Delbée, who received the 1983 Readers’ Choice Award of the revue Elle for her book.