Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.