I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Loving was so joyful and charming.Forgetting is so tearful and never ending.

I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be anywhere.

- You're going to have to be brave.- I'm always brave.- Braver than that.

Oh my Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt.

Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material.

My only books were women's looks.

Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine

A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.