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 do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

Men without joy seem like corpses.

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

I am in the world to change the world.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.