"I always felt, in a sense, that I didn't have the right to paint because I had two sons, and I had so many things that I should be doing. And here I was painting. But that show convinced me that I had a perfect right to paint. I shouldn't have ever felt that, but I did feel it. And after that show, I never felt it any more."

-(an elderly) Alice Neel (single mother) on her exhibit at The Whitney.