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Elizabet Ney

  • “[On her sculptor's studio in Austin, TX:] I sleep in a hammock, which requires no making up; I break an egg for my breakfast and sip it raw from the shell; I make lemonade in a glass and then rinse the glass — and my housework is done for the day.”

    • Elizabet Ney,
    • c. 1905, in Louise Bernikow, The American Women's Almanac ()

Elizabet Ney, German-born sculptor

(1833 - 1907)

Full name: Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Ney.