Women Can Do It: “Daily Rituals II: Women at Work”

DAILY RITUALS II: WOMEN AT WORK

Author: Mason Currey

Pages: 416

“I’m divided into two equally real but unrelated worlds,” said Edith Warthon author of The Age of Innocence and adding “marriage and authorship.”

One morning you wake up, the weather is cloudy; it will rain. You’re hearing rumbles describing the daily fuss of the household. “Ugh,” you say, “today is the same as tomorrow!” While you are complaining, the paper wads piled up on your table await your miraculous little winged muse fairies to appear. You are an author, a poet, or maybe a sculptor. How to do? How can one be one of the greatest artists of the age when there is a gloomy atmosphere, a heartfelt unwillingness, crying children, an impatient husband, meals waiting to be made, the dishes to be washed, bills to be paid, and an excited dog to take a walk?

Painter Niki de Saint Phalle was the kind of person that is mentioned above. She was married to writer Harry Mathews whom she had two children and she was trying to paint on the one hand.

She experienced the turning point in her life after she was addressed as the painting wife of the writer by a male painter friend. These words hurt her deeply, as if “an arrow stuck in the most sensitive parts of her soul”. After those words, she left her husband, children, and the duty of housewife. She escaped with her secret and jealous lover (her art). She built the Tarot Garden monumental sculpture, which is the largest sculpture of Toscany in 1978.

Lila Katzen a sculptor, who got married at the age of nineteen and mother of two, could only paint her paintings after she put her children to sleep or in the middle of the night in the workshop-like space on the upper floor of their house. Finally, she must have been a bit outraged,

“If the kids wake up and want to linger,” the artist said, “here’s some paint and paper!” I shout and throw it down the ladder. “

Each of them had the roles of people of different ages, the “wife” of men with different visions (maybe a “caregiver”), the “mother” of impatient children. On the one hand, they tried to meet the expectations of the society they lived in, on the other hand, they wrote columns for The New Yorker, made a feature film, and appeared in Broadway musicals. Each was born and died in different centuries, but struggled with the same norms, prejudices stemming from the same gender inequalities.

Marrie and Pierre Curie, the couple’s daughter Irene, spoke of her mother;

“Without personal, money, resources, it was my mother who fearlessly ventured into a terrifying task as if the laboratory they built by transforming the warehouse had processed pounds of uranium to concentrate and isolate radium.”

Let’s imagine! Experiment with uranium in the 19th century, explore the radioactivity! Moreover, when there is a child to be cared for, a husband whose needs must be met. How did she manage?

From Marie Curie to George Elliot, from Virginia Woolf to Patti Smith; women who are inspired by different codings, such as literature, painting, sculpture, cinema, and those who come after them with their works. With this book, author Mason Currey introduces us to the daily rituals of creative women. Maybe you are also a writer, a poet, or a sculptor. Put aside all the social roles you take on today, forget it. Make a cup of coffee, grab this book, and sit in a comfortable seat; Many creative women, from Marie Currie to Frida Kahlo, come to suggest you where to start!

From Marie Curie to George Elliot, from Virginia Woolf to Patti Smith; women who are inspired by different codings, such as literature, painting, sculpture, cinema, and those who come after them with their works. With this book, author Mason Currey introduces us to the daily rituals of creative women. Maybe you are also a writer, a poet, or a sculptor. Put aside all the social roles you take on today, forget it. Make a cup of coffee, grab this book, and sit in a comfortable seat; Many creative women, from Marie Currie to Frida Kahlo, come to suggest you where to start!

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