“For me, there are two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats.”

—  Pablo Picasso

Quoted in: Briton Hadden, ‎Henry Robinson Luce (1969), Time, Vol. 93. p. 66.
1960s

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Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stag… 1881–1973

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