"A contemporary woman artist still needs a room of one’s own and, as Woolf also urged, financial security, in order to make great art, but she also needs “an ego of one’s own,” and “a network of one’s own.” If her art is to get out into the world — written about, represented by galleries, and anointed by museums and art collectors as worthy — she has to be able to talk her work up, have somebody powerful willing to listen when she does, and not face gender stereotypes that she is transgressing social norms by doing so."