For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."