"In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work."

“A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.”

Source : William Henry Hudson (1923). “Collected Works”

“Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.”

Source : Issa Kobayashi, Nanao Sakaki, John Brandi, Jeff Bryan (1999). “Inch by inch: 45 haiku”, LA Alameda Pr

“The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!”

“When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are... branches that sort of move because you're not tending to them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.”

“I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling.”

“We have to understand (this is another key piece) that there are some individuals who still need that drama, that experience of violence.”

“We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.”

Source : Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.110, Random House