Wings to Fly

In 1953, the year her leg was amputated, Frida Kahlo wrote in her diary: “Pies, para qué los quiero si tengo alas pa’ volar” (Feet, what do I want them for, if I have wings to fly). The line stands under a watercolor of a severed foot.

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