Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

Old ideas die hard. We've had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward very basic human rights for women, and most of the world isn't even there yet. And it's going to take a long time to change these attitudes.

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.