It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

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.

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.

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

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

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.