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

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.

He walked out without his money.The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses.

Let Your Inhibitions Run Free

The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.