The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

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.

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.

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.

I want my name to mean me.

Good-night good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.

Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it's a very honest emotion.

The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

Your love is all that I was waiting for and now that I feel it ...oh man...what I thought was not even quarter of what I thought it really was.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)