There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And thats definitely changed.

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.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

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

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

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