Knowing Is The Most Profound

No. You Can't. And I Can't Do Anything Either, About My Life, To Change It, Make It Better, Make Me Feel Better About It. Like It Better, Make It Work. But I Can Stop It. Shut It Down, Turn It Off Like The Radio When There's Nothing On I Want To Listen To. It's All I Really Have That Belongs To Me And I'm Going To Say What Happens To It. And It's Going To Stop. And I'm Going To Stop It. So. Let's Just Have A Good Time.

We Have To Hear The Stories Of Women At All Ages Of Their Lives In Order To Really Present A Picture Of What It Felt Like To Be Alive In Our Time. That's What Our Job Is As Writers Is To Present That And Create It. Our Job As Writers Isn't To Make As Much Money As We Can. Our Job Is To Create A Record Of This Time. That's Why If You Leave Out Women And The Stories Of Women, We Failed At Our Mission. All Of Us. Men And Women.

There Are Things That Music Can Do That Language Could Never Do, That Painting Could Never Do, Or Sculpture. Music Is Capable Of Going Directly To The Source Of The Mystery. It Doesn't Have To Explain It. It Can Simply Celebrate It.

Art Is How A Culture Records Its Life, How It Poses Questions For The Next Generation And How It Will Be Remembered.

After I Won The Pulitzer, There Was This Sense Of, 'ok, That's Enough For You. Now Go Away.' What I Wanted Was To Keep Writing, Keep Working. But No One Would Produce Anything Of Mine They Didn't Think Would Be As Big As ''night, Mother.'