I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a carrier], which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. [Actually, that was her intention in posing for the photograph the way she did.] It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.

To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.

I'd like to think that I have integrity.

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.