Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).