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1 " A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading. "
― Karen Karbo , How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living
2 " Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure. "
3 " O'Keefe is the poster child for doing exactly what you want, in the service of an abiding passion. "
4 " What remains indisputable, however, is her genius for navigating the waters of her own vision, for discovering it, nurturing it, and never abandoning it. "
5 " All of them thought Georgia was weird. Then and now, it takes nerve to be weird - and I mean genuinely out of step with everyone else, not hipster-weird, where you affect the weirdness embraced by everyone else at the coffee shop. "