I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.

Becoming a Witch isn't something we acquire. The Witch is already within us. She is someone we become ready and willing to embrace. Someone we realize we ARE.

He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.

I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.

Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.