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Women in Art with Katy Hessel and Lizzy Stewart

The Waterstones Podcast

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The Only Blonde in the World by Pauline Boatey

The power of images and what they can tell you about a pointed history or someone's life is amazing. I'm always trying to avoid writing a story just because I want to draw it, that kind of takes you away from the integrity of what you're trying to say perhaps. What comes first for you is it text or image when you're thinking of a story like this? Yeah yeah I hope so I wrote down a quote from your book that you have written from Paula Modison Becker which was about when she left her husband. This moment where a woman is suddenly alone and free felt like the crux of so many of the stories in your book as well.

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