"(How do you relate to the women's movement?) LMS: I feel I've benefited by it just generally in the sense that anything that undermines the stereotypes perpetrated on all of us by white men is helpful. What it does is take some of the pressure off those of us who have never lived very close to the stereotypes. I've always been the way I was. Here at Laguna, a lot more is expected of women; women are expected to be strong, to manage the property. Children belong to women and to their families. Women do the plastering. It's a relief to have the stereotypes knocked down. It's just made it easier for me to do what I want to do."
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Leslie Marmon Silko, 1977 interview published in The Third Woman: Minority Women Writers of the United States by Dexter Fisher (1980)
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