The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.

I want to change awareness.