Maria Popova
@brainpicker
Reader. Writer. Creator of The Marginalian (long ago named Brain Pickings). Author of #Figuring. Lover of trees. Petter of moss. Rider of a cobalt blue bicycle.
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Today I watched the counter pass 3,000 bicycles on the Manhattan bridge. (I was one of them.) A little more than a century ago, that was unthinkable. Here is a superb 1896 manifesto for the bicycle as a portal to joy and empowerment, especially for women themarginalian.org/2020/04/08/bic…
'The true artist is not proud... Though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.'
Beethoven's letter of advice to a young girl who wanted to become an artist themarginalian.org/2017/05/18/bee…
Before the apogee of the civil rights movement, before the second wave of feminism, Jacqueline Ayer, born on this day in 1930, made an artistic career at Vogue and Christian Dior, then went on to write and illustrate some absolutely lovely children's books themarginalian.org/2017/08/30/the…