I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

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.

Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.

I would rather be known as someone who tried and failed, than someone who never tried at all.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.

I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.

They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.