"I have always been afraid of being a woman."

"I wish people were all to be as simple as grass, they will be then free."

"I often think about the first time I saw the desert. It was like a new world opening up to me."

"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."

"Men are always trying to make me into a woman. But I don't want to be a woman. I want to be a painter."