Nell Zink said this quote

Lee explained to her that art for art’s sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can’t be living a life driven by need and desire.

~ Nell Zink

The easy joy and the joyful ease of sex with men, their easy-access genitalia, their uncomplicated inner lives…

~ Nell Zink

When the past is hard to explain, it’s best to concentrate on the future.

~ Nell Zink

Peggy spent most of her time upstairs in the playroom, keeping him cleaned and fed. She was made to bring out the baby and accept praise for her work as if she were a being of a slightly lower social class – which she was. A woman.

~ Nell Zink