As a successful, highly trained woman artist who never married, Cassatt—like Ellen Day Hale, Elizabeth Coffin, Elizabeth Nourse and Cecilia Beaux—personified the "New Woman".
Som succesrig, veluddannet kvindelig kunstner, der aldrig giftede sig – i lighed med Ellen Day Hale, Elizabeth Coffin, Elizabeth Nourse og Cecilia Beaux – personificerede Cassatt den "nye kvinde".