Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.

Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a female Diety.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And thats definitely changed.

The ecstasy of seeing her versus the agony of losing her, a million births and a million deaths.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women - but not far enough to lose his balance.

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

It really gets tiresome to be constantly accused of spreading negativity about Barack Obama and the country. He's doing that on his own. We just chronicle it here.

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.