I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of 'madness'. Then: I'd arrange flowers, all day long, I'd paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: 'Poor thing, she's crazy!' (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else's – my madness would not be an escape from reality.

Mexican painter

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From her diary, expressing a desire for freedom from societal constraints and a different kind of reality.

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1944-1954 (during her diary keeping)

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