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

"I wish people would not try to find out what I had to eat, or what I wear, or what I think about when I am not working."

"I wish I could be rid of the thought that I am a woman."

"The days were so full of what I was doing and what I was seeing that I didn't think about anything else."

"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."