Working without the pressure of success

Not having to be in shows with men

Having an escape from the art world in your 4 free-lance jobs

Knowing your career might pick up after you’re eighty

Being reassured that whatever kind of art you make, it will be labeled feminine

Not being stuck in a tenured teaching position

Seeing your ideas live on in the work of others

Having the opportunity to choose between career and motherhood


Being included in revised versions of art history

Not having to choke on those big cigars or paint in Italian suits

Having more time to work when your mate dumps you for someone younger

Not having to endure the embarrassment of being called a genius

Getting your picture in the art magazines wearing a gorilla suit

Credit: Guerrilla Girls, Conscience of the Art World


I got this from my conservative friend who throws me a bone now and then to make up for being uninformed in other areas.