Anna Lea Merritt on the obstacles facing a woman artist and the role of a wife
"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.
