Judy Chicago Quotes

#1. Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

Judy Chicago

#2. Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Judy Chicago

#3. People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

Judy Chicago

#4. In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a female Diety.

Judy Chicago

#5. I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

Judy Chicago

#6. Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.

Judy Chicago

#7. Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.

William Safire

#8. One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.

Napoleon Hill

#10. I still feel like my game is very dangerous. I always will have my serve.

Pete Sampras

#11. You shouldn't have to justify your work.

Judy Chicago

#12. Chocolate may be cheaper than a psychiatrist, but the latter doesn't generally adhere to your ass for the rest of your natural life.

Lois Greiman

#13. I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

Judy Chicago

#14. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

Judy Chicago

#15. To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.

Judy Chicago

#16. There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

Judy Chicago

#17. With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.

Judy Chicago

#18. Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

Judy Chicago

#19. I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

Judy Chicago

#20. He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

Virginia Woolf

#21. I change my life when I change my thinking.
I am Light. I am Spirit.
I am a wonderful, capable being.
And it is time for me to acknowledge
that I create my own reality with my thoughts.
If I want to change my reality,
then it is time for me to change my mind.

Louise L. Hay

#22. So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Judy Chicago

#23. The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.

Jay Saunders Redding

#24. I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

Judy Chicago

#25. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill.

Mike Pence