I was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOODI was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOODCertainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
BEATRICE WOODHere in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
BEATRICE WOODAnd then a great thing in my life was going to India.
BEATRICE WOODMy life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOODBut I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
BEATRICE WOODBut you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
BEATRICE WOODI hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends.
BEATRICE WOODFirst of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
BEATRICE WOODI don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
BEATRICE WOODI’m not too interested in books about India.
BEATRICE WOODA rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
BEATRICE WOODAnd I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
BEATRICE WOODYou know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex
BEATRICE WOODAnd culture is – each of us – is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that’s all right. But once you’re on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.
BEATRICE WOODAnd then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
BEATRICE WOOD