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

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.

I had in mind a long career.

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

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

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

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.