Art & Creativity Quote by Glenn Close

Close’s phrasing reads like a quiet ethics statement disguised as process talk. She starts with “fortunate,” a word that lands oddly against “the camps,” and that dissonance is the point: when art brushes up against atrocity, access to testimony is both a gift and a burden. The line acknowledges that researching suffering can feel professionally “lucky” while morally fraught, so she keeps the sentiment modest and procedural, letting the tension sit there.

The repetition of “women” is doing heavy lifting. It’s not just a historical detail; it’s a corrective lens. Camp narratives often arrive flattened into mass tragedy, but Close insists on a gendered specificity: women as subjects, as witnesses, as the center of the story rather than the emotional backdrop. That focus signals an intent to avoid the generic “Holocaust story” template and instead locate character in the textures of women’s lives - their vulnerabilities, strategies, and forms of endurance.

Then there’s the careful escalation: books “detailing” the camps, “some” written by survivors, and then the stronger claim, “I also got to talk to” survivors. She’s building a chain of legitimacy from archive to embodied encounter. Subtext: if she’s going to inhabit these lives on screen or stage, she has to earn it through proximity to primary voices, not just secondary synthesis.

The matter-of-fact tone works because it refuses melodrama. Close positions herself less as a star “taking on” trauma and more as a custodian, pointing attention back to the women whose accounts made representation possible.