What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

I had in mind a long career.

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.

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.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.