I always was alone. And I'm alone today. It's fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work. I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It's fascinating because you learn a new field each time.

Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.

We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that's good, because it makes us grow.

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.