women's past, present, future

“Why do I write? Because the imperative to do so has been the strongest single force in my life and though I have been sidetracked by many, many muses, abused this one and wished it away, anxious always about the exacting nature of the commitment, I think it has finally claimed me. I have finally accepted the fact that, yes, writing is what I am suppose to do with my life; it is the way I affirm myself. […] The constant tug between private aloofness and community and social sharing has shaped my personality, my world-view and my work. […] Ultimately, we are all nothing more- or less- than children of the universe.”

“I myself would sleep easier at nights, have greater confidence in our collective futures, if I were able to imagine the globalization of culture not as the imposition of technology or culture from above, but as a welling up from below, a pouring into that increasingly depersonalized master culture of that creative flowering that is rooted in the tongue.”