“The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.”

“The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.”

“Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.”

“I don't think you can very well give people as presents: they might not like it.”

“I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.”

“I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. "I'm tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I'm tired of acting like I don't eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I'm tired of saying, 'How wonderful you are!' to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it... I can't eat another bite.”

“As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...”