Quotes from Miriam Schapiro

If you were to survey celebrated women, with every step toward real success there came a baby.

We really didn't have any literature telling us it was a good thing to be a woman artist. When I was trained, there were no precedents, and that was something to get really angry about.

I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important.

Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.