Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it beforewhy do we think we can succeed now?

... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off, but is a garden which each day must be weeded, watered, and trimmed anew, or soon there will be only brambles and wilderness.