If our basic belief about the role of women is that we must have children—despite a world groaning under overpopulation—women will never be able to crawl out from under the definition to achieve what calls for single-minded devotion.
Blog Posts about Women and Feminism
Women Writing Women’s Lives
To speak to my peers, who know exactly where I am coming from as a writer and a feminist, is such a rare and compelling treat.
Learning to Be Afraid
Right around me, signs sprout, against the backdrop of the beautiful mountains, signs that signal fear, possessiveness, and an almost obsessive need for protection.
Spurring Us Forward
I believe there are young women, as well as older women and certainly some men, who are beginning to claim this noble, long-rooted word—feminism—that connects us to a heroic tradition as well as spurring us forward into the future.
Irrepressible Crank
Sometimes I think we are all too nice.
Hopscotch House
Thirty years ago, it was a big plain farmhouse on a high rise of pasture when I first saw what would become Hopscotch House.
“As Writers We Never Know the Way We Impact Others…”
The world as we know it would grind to a halt if all the talented women—millions of us—insisted on their primacy and the primacy of the conditions they need in order to create.
Still Rattling Cages
In the end, the cage the Guerrilla Girls are rattling are the cages that confine all of us, tighter and tighter as we devise more categories that define us narrowly and separate us more completely.
Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken
I think my wild bunny wildness—which clearly is not very wild at all, and is vulnerable to all sorts of harm, outside her cage—does represent something so important for women: the attempt, at least, to imagine freedom.
Mother’s Meatloaf Starter
I’ve been to a lot of pueblo ceremonials over the years, and this one was as impressive as all of them: huge crowds of dancers, including small children, the women in black mantas, wooden tablitas shaped like mountain tops, or clouds, the men bare chested, painted, with shell bandoliers across their chests, and kilts with swaying fox or coyote tails down the back.