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The history of art is that there have been alot of artists who have always been socially engaged and art comes out of both a desire to define the meaning of life and a kind of rage and railing against human limitations.

— Judy Chicago In an interview with Ann Stubbs on New York City's WBAI (1981)

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Art without content is like sex without intimacy: technically sufficient, but emotionally empty.

At a certain point power becomes very frightening, and to really begin to reconstruct civilization means to really act in a powerful way. And power is the thing that women have been taught is a real taboo.

In an interview with Ann Stubbs on New York City's WBAI (1981)

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