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Whitney Chadwick

"The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity."

Source : Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

Whitney Chadwick

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“Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.”
“It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have to wait until I come back to the path. I think there's an internal force that makes a piece logical from beginning to end; I like to tell stories in music that are unexpected but also logical.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong.”
“The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.”

Source : The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.
“My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.”
“I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.”
“It seemed to me that John [Taylor] had a good chance of becoming leader: and I was fairly comfortable with that. I respected his judgment. And I also thought to myself that - because I was able to get on with him - I could become his Chief Whip.”

Source : Source: www.newsletter.co.uk
“I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.”

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