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“	Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women – women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in – older women and younger men.	”
	— Louise Bourgeois, Bourgeois, Louise; Avedon, Elizabeth; Kuspit, Donald B (1988). Bourgeois: [an interview with Louise Bourgeois. New York: Vintage Books. p. 76. ISBN 0394747925.