[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.

Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.

I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.