“People were afraid of her because she was undismayed about the facts of life--any of them--all of them.”

—  Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Djuna Barnes quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 17.
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