Leonora Carrington Quotes
One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.
Carrington, Leonora. The Hearing Trumpet. Exact Change, 1996.
He made this statement a few days after Donald Trump had won the Presidency and one of his slogans was “Drain the Swamp of Washington DC. While there was almost universal support for “Draining the Swamp” among Trump’s supporters, the President Elect had never specified exactly what specific changes should be made. Almost all Americans at that time were in favor of reform of the political system, but there was very little concordance on which areas are most important to reform and on the details of the changes that should be made.
(Mary) Leonora Carrington OBE was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.
