The reason I have stayed in Laos for all of these years is the extraordinary techniques.

They're trying to muzzle the people. And that's not right because there is still the freedom of speech in this country.

What I simply did as a contemporary weaver is work to revive silks with the traditional skills that many women in Laos still have.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical.

Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.