"When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!"

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Source : "Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.

Julie Mehretu

#Mom Quotes #Morning Quotes #Children Quotes

“The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.”
“The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.”
“As the Lord put on the body, leaving behind all principality and power, so Christians put on the Holy Spirit, and are at rest.”
“Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and in the American spirit that exist, there's also an over-arching, dominant mirroring, in poetry, of the corporate structure, the capitalist enterprise.”

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“It's the sick and twisted male fantasy that we want classy ladies out in the world that make us look good, but in the bedroom, men want subservient women who please all of their whims. It's the typical bullshit of male ego.”

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“A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.”
“In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.”
“Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.”

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