Posts tagged women artist

• Working without the pressure of success.
• Not having to be in shows with men.
• Having an escape from the art world in your four free-lance jobs.
• Knowing your career might pick up after you’re eighty.
• Being reassured that whatever kind of art you make it will be labeled feminine.
• Not being stuck in a tenured teaching position.
• Seeing your ideas live on in the work of others.
• Having an opportunity to choose between career and motherhood.
• Not having to smoke those big cigars or paint in Italian suits.
• Having more time to work after your mate dumps you for someone younger.
• Being included in revised versions of art history.
• Not having to undergo the embarrassment of being called a genius.

 Guerrilla Girls, quoted in Whitney Chadwick Women, Art and Society