"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."

“Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.”

Source : Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.55, Columbia University Press

“Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.”

“Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.”

“I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.”

“We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.”

Source : "Mama's whippings meant I didn't wind up like Tyson". Interview With Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2008.

“It always seems to people that I'm avoiding saying, 'It's autobiographical,' but I really do believe that human beings make stories and they make themselves. If I told you the same story twelve years ago, I could have emphasized something different. The importance changes, the meaning of things shifts over time. Also, I think all art is autobiographical. Every endeavor is full of impressions of ourselves.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

“... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.”

“Heart, you were never hot Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot”