I Stole a Book From My Feminist Idol
Shortly after filmmaker Agnès Varda died, I went to Paris to learn from her life — and take a piece of it home with me
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9 min readJul 4, 2019
We would see the gleaner, tramping along
gathering the relics
of that which is falling behind the reaper.
— Joachim du Bellay (from The Gleaners and I by Agnes Varda)