War Is An Absolute Failure

Art, Whose Honesty Must Work Through Artifice, Cannot Avoid Cheating Truth.

We Must Use What We Have To Invent What We Desire.

I Don’t Think We Can Separate Art From Overall Human Dignity And Hope.

But Before We Were Mothers, We Have Been, First Of All, Women, With Actual Bodies And Actual Minds.

Art And Literature Have Given So Many People The Relief Of Feeling Connected - Pulled Us Out Of Isolation. It Has Let Us Know That Somebody Else Breathed And Dreamed And Had Sex And Loved And Raged And Knew Loneliness The Way We Do.