Flo Perkins comments upon issues of gender in studio glassmaking. Oral history interview with Flo Perkins by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, August 20, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:40.

Flo Perkins: Well, I have a theory, that there’s not very many women my age who succeeded in having a career—because they all they got involved with the guys. And as soon as that relationship fell apart, they lost their access to the glass shop. And I wanted to blow glass so I didn’t get involved with any of these guys. And—it was a free-for-all, are you kidding me? And— I was very focused. I wanted to blow glass, so I didn’t get involved and that’s what I mean, when I got married in 1977. There’s a reason behind it. It got that off my plate. So I got married to avoid all that junk.