Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

All of us are in desperate need of the restoration of our wholeness through union with our inmost self.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

I lost my virginity when I was 6 years old.

Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer.

We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.

For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)

We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.