I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

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.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.