"After all, artists - especially writers - need more alone time than regular people.  They crave solitude whereas many people fear it.  They resign themselves to financial uncertainty whereas most people do anything they can to avoid it.  Moreover, if an artist is lucky, her work becomes her legacy, thus theoretically lessening the burden of producing a child to carry it out."
-Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the decision Not to Have Kids  by Meghan Daum

"Or institute a progressive artists' colony where young dreamers could take up their own work.  She could help them avoid the eighteen-hour days, the perpetual temper tantrums, the name-dropping, the ego trip, the talentless and tormented."
-Why We Came to the City by Kristopher Jansma

"In the early nineteenth century, women artists were by definition monstrous."
-Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon