Georgia O'Keeffe
"Georgia O'Keeffe was born in a farmhouse on a large dairy farm outside of Sun Prairie,
Wisconsin on November 15, 1887. Education for women was a family tradition. Georgia's own mother,
Ida had been educated in the East. All the daughters but one became professional women, attesting
to her influence on them.
When Georgia was in the eighth grade she asked a daughter of a farm employee what she was going to
do when she grew up. The girl said she didn't know. Georgia replied very definitely...
"I am going to be an artist! I don't really know where I got my artist idea...
I only know that by that time it was definitely settled in my mind."
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