“I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.”

— Paul Gauguin

Source: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. xxvii: Quote from Le Sourire (Tahiti, August 1899)

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French Post-Impressionist artist 1848–1903

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