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Museum in New York attributed to Frida Kahlo a quote from a 15-year-old schoolgirl: the mistake immediately spawned a lot of mem

'26.11.2021'

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On November 22, the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) published a post with a quote attributed to Frida Kahlo. “I used to think that I was the strangest person in the world. But then it dawned on me: there are so many people in the world that there must be someone else who feels as strange and imperfect as I do. " This incident is reported by TJournal.

"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do." - Frida Kahlo

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Frida Kahlo. "Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair." 1940. pic.twitter.com/lWIvk73s7y

- MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (@MuseumModernArt) November 22, 2021

Twitter user @trophyhuman repost the next day museum... She wrote that in fact the quote belongs to her friend Becky. It turned out that Becky signed a postcard with this phrase in 2008. Then she sent a postcard to the PostSecret art project, where anyone can send their secret anonymously. Some postcards are published on Online.

frida kahlo didn't say this, my friend becky wrote this on a picture of frida kahlo and sent it to postsecret in 2008 and it's been attributed to kahlo ever since !!!!https://t.co/eyR0wOwt7L https://t.co/p4nsgWEo01

- fast daughter (@trophyhuman) November 23, 2021

By the way, Becky's quote was attributed to Frida Kahlo not only by MOMA. Wiki Quotes users, the American webcomic author Zen Pencil, the book-review site Goodreads, and the Spanish-language news outlet ABC have also done so. As noted on QuoteInvestigator, the passage was translated from Spanish into English, and not vice versa. Replying to @trophyhuman's tweet, one user noted that he had met Becky's quote in the book. The phrase was attributed to Frida Kahlo in a book about British theater published in 2021.

Back in 2015, Rebecca Catherine Martin (Becky) confirmed on her blog that the quote belongs to her. She made a postcard at 15: “I pasted these lines on a magazine clipping of Kahlo and mailed the postcard to PostSecret. One Sunday my postcard was in the first place on the site, and the girl I was felt a surge of solidarity. I was not alone. The comments were so kind that I think I still saved them on my computer. "

The quote in this tweet is erroneously attributed to Frida Kahlo.

- MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (@MuseumModernArt) November 24, 2021

Following @trophyhuman's post, MoMA acknowledged the mistake and apologized. But the post remains on their page to this day, while social network users believe that such a reaction is not enough. They are convinced: the post must be removed in order not to mislead people.