Quote of the day - Writing and Not Writing
The statuesque Ms. Leibovitz, her long white hair flowing down her black button-down shirt, recalled pointing to Ms. Steinem’s messy desk in the corner of her home last year and saying, “That’s your cockpit.”
“I think it’s important for a young student or writer to see you at work,” Ms. Leibovitz had told her.
In the finished portrait, now tacked to the wall, Ms. Steinem, the 82-year-old political activist and women’s advocate, is captured lost in thought - or concern - at her computer, surrounded by books and paper, and bathed in the glow of her desk lamp. “It is, of course, the place that means the most to me,” Ms. Steinem said, “because it’s where I write - and where I’m unable to write.”
Annie Leibovitz’s Work on Women is Never Done (New York Times)
“I think it’s important for a young student or writer to see you at work,” Ms. Leibovitz had told her.
In the finished portrait, now tacked to the wall, Ms. Steinem, the 82-year-old political activist and women’s advocate, is captured lost in thought - or concern - at her computer, surrounded by books and paper, and bathed in the glow of her desk lamp. “It is, of course, the place that means the most to me,” Ms. Steinem said, “because it’s where I write - and where I’m unable to write.”
Annie Leibovitz’s Work on Women is Never Done (New York Times)