on beauty and bananas (bourgeois)

On “La Femme fiere d’elle meme,” 1946: She has a beautiful, fluffy dress and she has heels, high heels. If you have high heels, people will love you. If you want people to love you, you have to love yourself first. That’s what it means. (51)

On “Les Voleuses de grate ciel,” 1949: If you want to kill your rival in the eyes of a woman, you put a banana peel on the floor, so he is going to come and be very, very charming, and he will slip on the peel and be ridiculous, and the girl will laugh at him and you will have conquered the girl. (95)

- Louise Bourgeois: Drawings & Observations – Louise Bourgeois w/ Lawrence Rinder