I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

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.

When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.

I am convinced that we become what we do.