Zoe Buckman

“People will email me and text me if they've found an amazing loo. I'm like, 'How was the food?' They'll say, 'Fine, but you have to check out the loo.'”

“I don't like putting the female form behind glass or on a wall, further objectifying it as much as art does.”

“Cutting out images you like from art books and framing them is a great way of getting beautiful works on your wall. You can also frame magazine images or pick up inexpensive art at museum gift shops.”

“When I became older and started to become more in tune with my political leanings, there was a disconnect between the feminist in me and the hip hop side of me, and I don't know if, in some way, those influences are also present in Tupac's work.”

“I'm atypical in my personal life, my situation is not that of the average struggling artist, and so I feel like I have to work even harder to prove myself and let the work speak for itself. At the same time, I'm not prepared to hide who I truly am.”

“Becoming a mother really put me in touch with not just my mortality but also my baby's mortality. You spent nine months working on this thing, and it's finally there, and the first thing you think about is, 'I don't want my child to die.'”

“Well, I don't like shooting in bathrooms. They're small and cramped and you've got harsh surfaces and it's difficult.”

“For me, boxing was a way of me exercising my frustration, anger, sense of injustice, but also a way of owning my space and taking up space. Which I think as a woman in the art world is essential for surviving. You have to become comfortable going like, 'OK, I'm going to take this wall, this wall is mine, I'm going to put my work on this wall.'”

“I want to reduce the stigma of the word 'feminism.' It's not about eliminating and excluding. You can be yourself and still be a feminist.”

“I don't think that you have to always present as angry, masculine, aggressive to be a feminist.”

“I'm a Brit, so I come from a country where in the run-up to a general election, no one talks about abortion.”

“I have this ridiculous idea that art should just be for everyone, and everyone should get to enjoy art and it shouldn't be this exclusive thing.”

“People abandon you because they can't handle the depth and complexity of your experience, and that is ultimately a gift. It shows you what is important, who is important, and who is really, truly in your corner.”

“I have been drawn to India since I was a kid.”

“For me, 'Jewishness' manifests within my humor, slang, cynicism, culinary tastes, and the spirit of generosity ingrained in me.”

“My journey with grief, with learning how to grow through it, rather than get over it, will be a lifelong one.”

“I'm someone who lives with the work of artists I've been lucky enough to know or trade with.”

“My work is always on display, and my life is always on display when I make my work.”

“It was super-important to me that I would be able to make work out of my home.”

“I attended the Women's March on Washington with a group of artists, curators, and art-world professionals.”