A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

I can't hold a camera anymore.