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# Anna Lea Merritt on the obstacles facing a woman artist and the role of a wife
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/glavnoe-prepiatstvie-na-puti-k-uspekhu-zhenshchiny-sostoit-v-tom-chto-u-nee-nikogda-ne-mozhet-byt-zheny/
- Published: 2021-09-03T10:47:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:04:05.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Mores, People, Humour

"The main obstacle to a woman's success is that she can never have a wife. Just imagine what a wife does for an artist: darns his stockings, keeps the household going, writes his letters... How very hard it is to be an artist without such a saving of time."

— the American portrait painter Anna Lea Merritt (1844-1930).

As for Anna Lea's own husband, who died three months after the wedding, the saving of time there extended decades into the future.