“I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down… The other accident is Diego.”

— Frida Kahlo

Quote in Imagen de Frida Kahlo by Gisèle Freund in Novedades (Mexico City) (10 June 1951)
1946 - 1953

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Mexican painter 1907–1954

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and there is my body
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“I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down… The other accident is Diego.”

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