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

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.

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.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

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

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

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