You shouldn't have to justify your work.

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Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

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

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

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

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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.

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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 humanism.

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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 that's definitely changed.

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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.

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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 to make art? Of course not.

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