Occupation: Artist Birth: July 20, 1939
Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist..
In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a femal….
Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting doesn't always lead to action. Many of the w….
Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong..
Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go ….
People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within ….
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 s….
It's not enough to have a few women's studies courses. Why is it more important to study Paul Revere's midnight ride than it is Susan B. Anthony's 50….
I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience..
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 ….
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 believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are strivi….
So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it..
Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or the sense of personal expansion that comes….
To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as w….
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 ….
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is….
Don't give up. It's really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says..
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 definite….
Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not..
Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned ac….