You shouldn't have to justify your work.

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.

Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.

Those who die never truly leave us. They are forever there beyond the shimmering of light at the edge of sight.

We tend not to look at the bigger picture of our lives and instead dwell on the small things that irritate us. When we focus on the bigger picture, those small things fade away.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.

You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.

Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

Fresh October brings the pheasant, Then to gather nuts is pleasant.