“Unavoidably and in many cases, sadly, the woman artist must grope her way through the emotional cesspool of her own outrage, her fear, and her anxiety at being treated on the whole as a member of a stereotyped group in society rather than being recognized as an individual. All the problems of the creative lifestyle are doubly difficult and doubly debilitating because as an artist she must first establish herself as a person. Her view of the world, her concern for others, her drive for the tangible creative expressions of the images in her mind are tangled with these negative, frustrating emotions which by their very nature drain her creative powers.” WomenCreativityFeminismFeministVirginia WoolfWoman ArtistFemale ArtistFemale Creative Book:Just This Side of Madness: Creativity and the Drive to Create Source: Just This Side of Madness: Creativity and the Drive to Create