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I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Age: 88 †
Born: 1899
Born: September 23
Died: 1988
Died: April 17
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Louise B. Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky
Leike Berliawsky
Louise née Berliawsky
Louise nee Berliawsky
Leah Berliawsky
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I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.
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I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.
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My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.
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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.
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It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.
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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
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