4 Quotes by Mary Pauline Lowry

That was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and mirrors.

There is pain in being a woman, yes, but there is pride in it, too.

I wonder if I’ll ever have that feeling again. That ink will always be flowing from my pen, and it doesn’t matter what anyone things about my creations, as long as I’m creating them.

When I was a kid, it had been all about drawing for the sake of drawing. Not about getting anything out of it. The ephemeral nature of the sidewalk chalk drawings had been part of the fun. It hadn’t been about making art that endured or got me anything. It had just been about the beautiful, sometimes frustrating, but always glorious process of creations.