For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself. ―Anaïs Nin Public Domain Image via Pixabay
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Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as … Continue reading Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
Quote for Today: Joseph Campbell
They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure. ―Joseph Campbell, The Hero's … Continue reading Quote for Today: Joseph Campbell
Quote for Today: Wendy Froud
My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy books of that time. The Narnia books by C.S. Lewis were my favorites and, later, Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. I started making dolls to fill in the gaps of the dolls I … Continue reading Quote for Today: Wendy Froud
