Natalie Clifford Barney





Natalie Clifford Barney

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born
October 31, 1876 in Dayton, Ohio, The United States

died
February 02, 1972

gender
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Natalie Clifford Barney (31 October 1876 – 2 February 1972) was an American expatriate who lived, wrote and hosted a literary salon in Paris. She was a noted poet, memoirist and epigrammatist.

Barney's salon was held at her home on Paris's Left Bank for more than 60 years and brought together writers and artists from around the world, including many leading figures in French literature along with American and British Modernists of the Lost Generation. She worked to promote writing by women and formed a "Women's Academy" in response to the all-male French Academy while also giving support and inspiration to male writers from Remy de Gourmont to Truman Capote.

She was openly lesbian and began publishing love poems to women under her own name as...more


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“ When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.”
Natalie Clifford Barney

“My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.”
Natalie Clifford Barney

“Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.”
Natalie Clifford Barney