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How a Woman Artist Helped Me Embrace My Choice to be Unmarried and Childfree
Morisot’s paintings of women up close lined the walls, a pastel perspective at vanity tables and in gardens. My breath rushed in: beautiful.
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How My Mother Protected Us from My Father and Found Solace in Art
My mother described the Rembrandt paintings as her friends. I’d never heard anyone talk about art that way, instilling it with something like a personhood of its own.
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How a Picasso Painting Helped Me Move Past Numbness After Trauma
I had not been erased by the violence I’d suffered, but was changed by it. A new, difficult layer had been added to my life.