I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Faith is a flaming light.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.

I’m a Jersey girl, no one can knock me down

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

My mantra is that I can go back home at anytime. I have a degree, I am smart, and I am honest. I care about my career and what I do, yet I know my lane and where I desire to go.