Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Brighten your picture! Refuse to be blurred

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.