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

If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.

People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.

I never considered myself a performance artist.

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.

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