Is being an artist or writer elitist?

The Trials and Triumphs of Writing While Woman

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Elise gave me this article, “Letting Go” which asks the question what women give up and ends with “If the personal is political, it must be literary, too.” While there is much analysis about the situation, my favorite response was from Toni Morrison when as a single mother is asked the question, how does she find the time?

She said her life was filled with the joys and troubles of writing, and the needs of her boys. “I couldn’t write the way writers write. I had to write the way a woman with children writes. I would never tell a child ‘leave me alone. I’m writing.’ That doesn’t mean anything to a child. What they deserve and need, in-house, is a mother. They do not need and cannot use a writer.“

I would tend to answer the question, “Is being an artist or writer elitist?” yes, unless a woman has the strength to make the choices she needs regarding her situation, which may or may not be letting go, may or may not be getting a divorce. I remember in 1977 meeting a woman artist who was very much about telling me how much time it takes to be an artist. At that time, just beginning to take my writing seriously, I felt discouraged when it was at that moment, I said I would not let the children stop me. I would simply only write 10 minute poems if that’s all the time I had.