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

Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That’s why they don’t pay you for it.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

Revision, self-criticism, change-all these are essential for any art form to maintain a sense of vitality.