“I didn't want to be a woman artist, I just wanted to be an artist.”

— Isabel Bishop

Statement (16 December 1982) as quoted in The "New Woman" Revised : Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street (1992) by Ellen Wiley Todd, Ch. 7, p. 273.

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