And we became survivors. So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection. There are only so many roles for people like me, and I don't have a big name yet. I grew up in quite an oppressive Catholic society. In order to survive that, you either had to be willful or risk losing touch with yourself.
Women are now so much more free agents.
Joyce Carol Oates. She could always see beyond Hollywood's city limits. She had loved being an actress because the theatre seemed to her nothing less than the truth. A higher truth. Acting in a play, one of the great plays, you became better than you really were.