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

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

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.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.