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The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Bourgeois
Age: 98 †
Born: 1911
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 1
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I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
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The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.
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If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.
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My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.
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Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
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Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.
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One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
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Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
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My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.
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My life has been regulated by insomnia.
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An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
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