My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.

Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.

As I experienced life on the island, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, I thought it was important to show that people can live as I did without dying or falling apart. I wanted people to understand that we don't need everything that our culture tells us we have to have to be satisfied.

One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.

The world is abundant with food for us, and with everything we need, if only we just open our eyes. There's so much food that gets thrown out or never harvested.

I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.