"I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim."
— Frida Kahlo

January 1, 1970

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Quote in a letter to Ella Wolfe, "Wednesday 13," 1938, as cited in Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983) , p. 197. In a footnote (p.467), Herrera writes that Kahlo had heard this joke from her friend, the poet José Frías.