It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?

I should hex the IRS.

I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.

Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

Barnes are blessings.