"Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“So many things begin to change when you come at the world from that perspective of more than one right answer.”
“The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.”
“Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.”
“There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.”
“Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete that success, a painting is made as a communication tool for that idea.”
“JustÂ â€¦ isnâ€™t giving up allowed sometimes? Isnâ€™t it okay to say, â€˜This really hurts, so Iâ€™m going to stop tryingâ€™?â€ â€œIt sets a dangerous precedent.â€ â€œFor avoiding pain?â€ â€œFor avoiding life.”
“Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.”
“The purpose of art is to console and amuseâ€”myself, and, I hope, others.”

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