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Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

Willa Cather
Thinking, Hands, Talent
Willa Cather (1967). “The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896”, p.408, U of Nebraska Press

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

Willa Cather
Artist, Talent, Notes
Willa Cather (2013). “Not Under Forty”, p.47, Knopf

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