The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.