In her own words...
....Dorothea Tanning's response in 1982 to a request for inclusion in an exhibition of women artists....
Really, with all due respect, I cannot consciously participate in an exhibition that deals only with one half of human being (woman) whilst excluding the other half (man). Furthermore, supposing I were not really a woman? It seems to me that for a project like yours one requires a medical examination. Especially in these times when imposture is experiencing a revival and when a woman can turn out...
to be a man!
—from Cécile Debray, “Pioneering Women,” elles@centrepompidou: Women Artists in the Collection of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre de création industrielle. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2009 (English version), p.29.
