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Olivia Waite
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October 19, 2023 - August 4, 2024
“They don’t let you have anything whole, you know. If you don’t follow the pattern. You have to find your happiness in bits and pieces instead. But it can still add up to something beautiful.�
“I am tired of twisting myself into painful shapes for mere scraps of respect or consideration. Tired of bending this way and that in search of approval that will only ever be half granted.�
Maybe an artist is simply one who does an artist’s work, over and over. A process, not a paragon.�
She ought to have paid more attention to her own self before now. She ought to have allowed herself to want things.
Women’s ideas are treated as though they sprung from nowhere, to be claimed by the first man who comes along. Every generation had women stand up and ask to be counted—and every generation of brilliant, insightful, educated men has raised a hand and wiped those women’s names from the greater historical record.�
