In one of her journals Eva Hesse wrote, “Excellence has no sex.” I’ve always thought this comment reveals more about the times she lived in, her education, and the influence of (male) professors, than Hesse’s attitudes about being an artist. Who knows if she believed it, or whether for her, in her ambitions for herself and her career, she simply hoped it to be true.
(Sarah Pierce, "Caption for a photograph", in When Art (or In What Regard?), by Jeanette Doyle, part of FLOAT curated by Sara Reisman, a biannual exhibition organized in Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, New York, August 2007.)