Quote:
"The artist Joyce Wieland talks about finding her voice as a woman while living in New York in the 1960s, where the art world was very male dominated and intellectual. 'I found this very troubling,' she remembers. 'The message was that if women wanted to be taken seriously as artists, we had to deny our experience and identity as women.' Once she recognized this conflict, she began to search for ways to make her femininity part of her work. 'I made a film about being trapped in a kitchen. Then I began to work in cloth. By introducing these elements of domesticity, I was desperately attempting to legitimize my work in terms of my own experience.'"
-- Judith Finlayson

Source:
Finlayson, Judith. Against the Current: Canadian Women Talk about Fifty Years of Life on the Job. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1995. (p. 11)