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Then they brought me back and put me in a private school. I went to Miss Ely's, which was the fashionable finishing school in those years.

Beatrice Wood

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

Beatrice Wood

That ever since I've been a child I've been interested in art and been dragged through all the museums of Europe and had the sense to buy art books.

Beatrice Wood

Sex is energy.

Beatrice Wood

Roche was a very interesting man, but I have had the unfortunate experience of feeling that all men are bastards.

Beatrice Wood

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

Beatrice Wood

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

Beatrice Wood

I've a record of every single pot.

Beatrice Wood

I'm not too interested in books about India.

Beatrice Wood

I was interested in the theatre as an art and, after a few years in it, gave it up.

Beatrice Wood

I was in a convent for a year.

Beatrice Wood

I was engaged to be married. And the young man pressured me into becoming engaged. I wasn't really in love with him.

Beatrice Wood

I never meant to become a potter.

Beatrice Wood

I made up my mind I was just going to be myself. And I met them that way and I had a tremendous success with the Indian people.

Beatrice Wood

I have no sense of price at all.

Beatrice Wood

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

Beatrice Wood

I got much closer to Marcel after I broke with Roche.

Beatrice Wood

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

Beatrice Wood

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

Beatrice Wood

Gordon Craig was the illegitimate son of Ellen Terry, the father of one of Isadora Duncan's children, and the great innovator of scenic design in the theatre.

Beatrice Wood