What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

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

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

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

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.

Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.