My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.

This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.