- Marcia Tucker: What has really interested me is the fact that contrary to popular belief or media rumor, feminism is not dead, and that there is a whole generation of young women who are absolutely ferocious and energized and real, real smart, smarter I think then we were, who are engaged with these issues and are working actively and the difference is, they're funny. They are really funny. There is a certain- I think when- when my generation began this sort of feminist project, we were so angry, we were so full of rage that it took years to empty ourselves of that rage.
- Marcia Tucker: A lot of things have changed for the better and it strikes me that the young women, especially in the arts, who are taking up some of these concerns are doing it with a kind of grace and a kind of good humor and self assuredness that our anger seemed to obliterate. They appear to be less concerned with the consequences of speaing for themselves and about themselves. And this to me in an extremely exhilarating thing.
- Linda Nochlin: We were told we were neurotic, mean, that was what smart women were told, intellectual women because, you know, of course we couldn't do everything, we couldn't keep house, we couldn't take charge of the children, we couldn't be perfect wives and devote ourselves to our work without some kind of A. social validation, which men have always gotten and B. without some sort of set-up in the world, you know, day-care, other women around to give support. If you are a total individual bucking the stream, you're in hell, I mean it is just- it's too much, you know, you don't know who you are or what you are, you just know you want to do that work.
- Carolee Schneemann: I spent so many years, I think really even from the time I was 17 looking for a lost history of women artists. It seemed impossible that I was the only anomalous young female who had to make images. I didn't have support for even my sense of what an artist might be, but I knew from the time I was 4 years old that I had to make images, it was just that simple.