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

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

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.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet.

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.