Depicting Femininity
MA Surface Pattern and Textile design Portfolio
With the following quotes:
Foreboding - 'She was led to consider the oppressed state of women, and to lament that she had given birth to a daughter'. -Mary Wollstonecraft 1798
Angst- 'The anger we have as women is an act of radical imagination. Angry women burn brighter than the sun'. - Soraya Chemaly 2018
Broken- 'Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries?'. - Maya Angelou 1978
Despondent - 'Drowsy and dark my spirit lies, Heavy and dull as lead... And Hope within me dies: Even faith itself is wavering now'. - Emily Bronte 1920
Lament - 'He who robs us of our dreams, robs us of our life'. - Virginia Woolf 1928