Female artists

“You must renounce everything superficial and conventional, all vanity and outward show (concerning your individuality and your work)—you must surrender yourself to me unconditionally […] and wish for nothing more than my love!”
(Gustav Mahler to his future wife Alma Schindler, 1901)

“Nothing must be of a greater concern to women than to struggle against the abstraction in which she is permanently transformed through male thinking. That means, to emerge out of passivity and break the silence.”
(Rosa Mayreder, 1905)