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I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

— Louise Bourgeois

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Art is a guaranty of sanity.

I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.

The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

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