Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) German artist
Quoted in Käthe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist (1976) by Martha Kearns The Feminist Press, ISBN 0-912-67015-0, p. 82.
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<p>L’homme qui, dès le commencement, a été longtemps baigné dans la molle atmosphère de la femme, dans l’odeur de ses mains, de son sein, de ses genoux, de sa chevelure, de ses vêtements souples et flottants,</p><p>Dulce balneum suavibus<br>Unguentatum odoribus,</p><p>y a contracté une délicatesse d’épiderme et une distinction d’accent, une espèce d’androgynéité, sans lesquelles le génie le plus âpre et le plus viril reste, relativement à la perfection dans l’art, un être incomplet.</p> <br class="br">"Un mangeur d'opium," VII: Chagrins d'enfance http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Paradis_artificiels_-_II#VII_CHAGRINS_D.E2.80.99ENFANCE <br class="br">Les paradis artificiels (1860)
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) German artist
Quoted in Käthe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist (1976) by Martha Kearns The Feminist Press, ISBN 0-912-67015-0, p. 82.
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Elizabeth Gould Davis book The First Sex
The First Sex, ch. 22 - Woman in the Aquarian Age (1971).
“He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.”
Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“Her hair is Harlow gold
Her lips a sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Bette Davis eyes”
Jackie DeShannon (1941) American singer-songwriter
"Bette Davis Eyes" (1975); written with Donna Weiss
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 315.