there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.